Destination Aesthetics and Aesthetic Distance in Tourism Experience

Do small green roofs have the possibility to offer recreational and experiential benefits in a dense urban area? A case study in Helsinki, Finland

“…colour and smell, Coeterier, 1996;sound, Kirillova et al, 2014), and beauty (cf. Gobster et al, 2007;Hauru et al, 2014;Kirillova and Lehto, 2015).…”

Tourists’ aesthetic assessment of environmental changes, linking conservation planning to sustainable tourism development

“…By revising relevant models of human aesthetic judgment, a more comprehensive model with nine aesthetic factors (scale, time, condition, sound, balance, diversity, novelty, shape and uniqueness) was recently proposed to study tourist aesthetic judgment of a place (Kirillova et al, 2014). These factors were classified along two dimensions: concrete-abstract and objective-subjective and then tested in the context of tourist experiences with a destination (Kirillova, 2015;Kirillova & Lehto, 2016). Among six reconstructed factors (locale characteristics, scope, upkeep, accord, perceived age, and shape), upkeep, accord, and scope were al., 2012) Vegetation or land cover (Arriaza et al, 2004;Fyhri et al, 2009;Rogge et al, 2007;Yao et al, 2012) Water spaces (Arriaza et al, 2004;Coeterier, 1996;White et al, 2010) Colour or colour contrast (Arriaza et al, 2004;Chen et al, 2016;Coeterier, 1996;Lindemann-Matthies, Junge, & Matthies, 2010;Yao et al, 2012) Diversity or variety or complexity (Arriaza et al, 2004;Breiby & Slåtten, 2015;Frank et al, 2013;Kirillova et al, 2014;Schirpke, Tasser, & Tappeiner, 2013;Van den Berg et al, 1998;van der Jagt et al, 2014) Human elements (i.e.…”

Measuring perceived beauty of the Great Barrier Reef using eye-tracking technology

“…Breiby (2014, p. 171) found that experts considered that the aesthetics of nature-based tourism involved key concepts of 'perception, structure, senses, beauty, and pleasant'. However, as in the literature of consumer behaviour (Patrick & Peracchio, 2010), psychology (Arnheim, 1966;Leder & Nadal, 2014) and nature research (Carlson, 2009), the principal perspective on aesthetic appreciation found in the tourism-related literature is objective in nature, that is that the beauty of a scene is connected to the characteristics of a destination rather than the observer's evaluation (Kirillova, 2015;Kirillova et al, 2014;Kirillova & Lehto, 2016).…”