Journal of Tourism Consumption and Practice – Volume 1, No. 1 – 2009https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/115222024-03-29T09:10:09Z2024-03-29T09:10:09ZEditorial: Journal of Tourism Consumption and Practice Volume 1 No.1 2009Meethan, K.Andrews, H.Busby, G.https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/115292019-05-22T15:09:21Z2009-01-01T00:00:00ZEditorial: Journal of Tourism Consumption and Practice Volume 1 No.1 2009
Meethan, K.; Andrews, H.; Busby, G.
2009-01-01T00:00:00ZIs Wellington Environmentally Friendly? Visitors’ Views of New Zealand’s CapitalAlonso, A. D.https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/115282019-05-22T15:09:21Z2009-01-01T00:00:00ZIs Wellington Environmentally Friendly? Visitors’ Views of New Zealand’s Capital
Alonso, A. D.
For nearly a decade, New Zealand has been using nature related slogans to
market the country’s rural environment, or pollution-free image. The constant
growth of overseas visitor numbers illustrates that such campaigns appear to
be successful. However, limited discussion is provided in contemporary
research on visitors’ views about environmental issues in New Zealand, and
particularly in its capital Wellington. This study examines this dimension from
the perspective of 353 visitors travelling to (pre-visit) and from Wellington
(post-visit); these respondents completed a questionnaire distributed during
August and September of 2006. In this study, comparisons are made between
pre- and post visit, and also between domestic and overseas visitors. In
addition, written comments on environmental issues about the city of
Wellington are gathered from these visitor groups. While the overall results
demonstrate respondents’ agreement that Wellington is an environmentally
friendly city, many participants’ written comments also suggest areas of
improvement, particularly regarding lack of recycling, congested traffic, noise
and building decay. These elements might be currently discouraging some
groups of travellers from visiting Wellington, with subsequent potential
impacts. Implications for city officials and tourism stakeholders include the
need for concerted efforts to improve the city’s image and its environmental
friendliness.
2009-01-01T00:00:00ZEngaging Auschwitz: an analysis of young travellers’ experiences of Holocaust TourismThurnell-Read, T. P.https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/115272019-05-22T15:09:21Z2009-01-01T00:00:00ZEngaging Auschwitz: an analysis of young travellers’ experiences of Holocaust Tourism
Thurnell-Read, T. P.
This article considers the experiences of young travellers visiting the site of
the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. Semi-structured
interviews were used to generate qualitative data on the way individuals
approach, engage with and interpret their experience of visiting Auschwitz. In
analysing findings from interviews, this paper focuses first on the various
motivational factors that initiate individuals‟ visit and, further, the manner in
which individuals seek to actively engage with the site. The latter is seen to
draw on imaginative devices, employed by young travellers to feel a greater
connection to the site. The influence of historical, pedagogical and cinematic
accounts of the Holocaust and how these are seen to interact with individuals‟
experiences of visiting the camp in reality are considered. Finally, an account
of the meanings which individuals ascribe to their experiences is offered.
Such is suggested to occupy two positions. First, achieving a greater
understanding of the historical facts of the Holocaust and, second, the
affirmation of humanist values as understood, at times ambivalently, with
reference to contemporary society.
2009-01-01T00:00:00Z‘Non vedete. È un rivoluzione.’ [You don’t see. It’s a revolution] Edward Lear Landscape Painter and ItalyWalchester, K.https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/115262019-05-22T15:09:21Z2009-01-01T00:00:00Z‘Non vedete. È un rivoluzione.’ [You don’t see. It’s a revolution] Edward Lear Landscape Painter and Italy
Walchester, K.
Edward Lear‟s 1852 text Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern
Calabria and the Kingdom of Naples details the author‟s painting tours in the
South of Italy during one of its periods of major political and social upheaval.
The text was based on his journeys in Southern Calabria in the summer of
1847 and Basilicata in the autumn of the same year. In his travel writing, Lear
attempts, through a rhetoric of the „picturesque‟, to construct an Italian refuge
for himself; one which is static and silently „picture-like.‟ This article considers
the tensions and negotiations in this text between Lear‟s picture-refuge and
his reporting of the dramatic events of the Italian Risorgimento, which
demanded his, largely unwilling, involvement.
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