Abstract
Innovative fieldwork research in cultural tourism is presented which is based around a detective novel set in a seaside town in France. The participants completed autoethnographic writing to provide insight into the active processes of value creation, experience creation, place-making and identity formation. The original research proposes a theory for the way that the literary language in the cultural artefact, in this case the realist novel, activates the tourist's cultural capital and thus affects behaviours. A new theoretical term is proposed, the toureme. The theory has applicability in other towns where novels are set and hence is useful for place-making. Further, the research aims to provide re-usable tools for cultural development particularly in the emerging field of archaeological topophonics currently being piloted by the author.
Publication Date
2018-06-01
Publication Title
Journal of Hospitality & Tourism
Publisher
CSJM University, Kalyanpur-Kanpur (UP)208024 INDIA
ISSN
2322-0198
Embargo Period
2024-11-19
Additional Links
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/charlie-mansfield
Keywords
cultural capital, literary tourism, toureme
First Page
1
Last Page
17
Recommended Citation
Mansfield, C. (2018) 'Cultural Capital in Place-Making', Journal of Hospitality & Tourism, , pp. 1-17. CSJM University, Kalyanpur-Kanpur (UP)208024 INDIA: Retrieved from https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/pbs-research/432
