Refocussing the tourist experience: the flaneur and the choraster

Wearing, Betsy; Wearing, Stephen

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“…An aim here may be to explain the cultural or philosophical bias of a concept or even to propose a more universal concept. For example Wearing and Wearing (1996) critique the male bias in the conceptualisation of the tourist as 'flâneur' and the tourist destination as 'image' in the tourist gaze, drawing on ideas from interactionist and post structural feminist theories. The eighth theme is Applying Concepts to Practice.…”

Section: Qualitative Aspects: Typology Of Themes In Conceptual Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptual research in tourism

Xin

Tribe

Chambers

2013

Annals of Tourism Research

161

116

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Section: Qualitative Aspects: Typology Of Themes In Conceptual Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptual research in tourism

Xin

Tribe

Chambers

2013

Annals of Tourism Research

161

116

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“…In a critique of tourist destinations, Wearing and Wearing (1996) use the concepts of "flâneur" and "chora" to illustrate the difference between spaces that are designed to be gazed upon-cold and alienating experiences in which the tourist is merely a spectator-and spaces that are comfortable and inviting, spaces in which people interact. They make the point that tourist destinations should not be designed as spaces in which we gaze at predetermined images, in the tradition of the tourist as "flâneur."…”

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Business Events and Friendship: Leveraging the Sociable Legacies

Foley¹,

Edwards²,

Schlenker³

2014

Event Management

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Business events are celebrated for their contributions to community and industry. They are understood to be shared social contexts in which people meet to advance knowledge, sell products, and network. Less celebrated and, arguably, less understood is that business events provide a context for the development of friendships. In 2011 an online survey was conducted with the delegates of five international business events held in Sydney, Australia in the period 2009–2011. The survey was designed to investigate business legacies of the events (such as investment opportunities, research collaborations) rather than sociable legacies. however, a surprising number of references to friendship were made in the “additional comments” sections of the questionnaire. reflecting on this finding, this article argues that friendships forged at business events contribute to, respectively: the well-being of delegates, association membership levels, conference attendance, retention of personnel in the profession, successful research and professional collaborations, and creativity and innovation in the sector. Business event planners can maximize opportunities for sociable outcomes among delegates by designing warm and inviting event spaces that facilitate interaction, and by providing social space for the development of relationships, optimal conditions for sociability, and opportunities for play to stimulate creativity and build community.

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“…The interviews were transcribed and then thematically coded with respect to regularly articulated points of view. The analysis was conducted to take advantage of the value of qualitative methods in moving beyond pre-coded categories and distinctions between the 'subject/ object', allowing the researcher to capture the tourist's constructions of his or her experiences (Wearing and Wearing, 1996).…”

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“…Ongoing maintenance of relations with friends or family is one source of interaction, as well as a way offering a way of preserving the familiar and everyday (White and White, 2007a). Relationships are also forged with people encountered while travelling: members of the tourism industry, the host population and most signifi cantly for the present paper, other tourists (Wearing and Wearing 1996).…”

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“…Where no common defi nition of situation exists, as in the circumstances in which tourists fi nd themselves, interpretations have to be developed and effective accommodation of the participants to one another has to be devised. This production of experience rests in large part on the interactions that tourists have with each other (Pons, 2003) and, to a lesser extent, with the host population (Wearing and Wearing, 1996). These interpretations can assist in managing the anxieties associated with travellers' roles as 'temporary strangers' in unfamiliar environments (Greenblat and Gagnon, 1983, p. 92).…”

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The comfort of strangers: tourists in the Australian Outback

White

2009

Journal of Tourism Research

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Interviews with tourists in the remote regions of Outback Australia reveal that interactions with others are integral to their experience as tourists and an important mechanism for dealing with their occupation of a landscape whose mythical status in the Australian imagination renders it simultaneously culturally familiar and alien. The role, signifi cance and characteristics of relationships forged with people encountered while travelling in this environment were examined. Because of the rigours of the travel in this setting, tourists were found to be keen to be in the company of others. Their relationships and interactions were bounded, free of the obligation of ongoing attachment and consisting, for the most part, of ritualised interchanges. Interactions between tourists enriched their understanding of this ambivalently perceived cultural and physical environment, offering comfort and companionship.

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Refocussing the tourist experience: the flaneur and the choraster

Cited by 156 publications

References 19 publications

Conceptual research in tourism

Conceptual research in tourism

Business Events and Friendship: Leveraging the Sociable Legacies

The comfort of strangers: tourists in the Australian Outback

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