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Questioning Walking Tourism from a Phenomenological Perspective: Epistemological and Methodological Innovations

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العنوان: Questioning Walking Tourism from a Phenomenological Perspective: Epistemological and Methodological Innovations
المؤلفون: Chiara Rabbiosi, Sabrina Meneghello
المصدر: Humanities, Vol 12, Iss 4, p 65 (2023)
بيانات النشر: MDPI AG, 2023.
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: LCC:History of scholarship and learning. The humanities
مصطلحات موضوعية: tourist mobilities, student-cum-tourists, walking methodologies, place performance, embodiments, sensory experiences, History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, AZ20-999
الوصف: This article aims to illuminate the overlooked entanglement of space, material practices, affects, and cognitive work emplaced in walking tourism. Walking as a tourism activity is generally practised in the open air away from crowded locations; therefore, it is being encouraged even more in this (post)pandemic era than prior to the pandemic. While walking is often represented as a relatively easy activity in common promotional discourse, this article argues that it is much more complex. It revises the notion of tourist place performance, focusing on walking both as a tourist practice and as a research method that questions multi-sensory and emotional walker engagement. While extensively revisiting literature on walking tourism and the most novel methodological innovations, the article draws from a walking tourism experience undertaken as part of a student trip to demonstrate that the emotions that arise from walkers’ embodied encounters with living, as well as inanimate elements, extend beyond what might be included in a simple focus on landscape “sights”. In conclusion, it is suggested that a phenomenological approach to walking may prove particularly useful for understanding key issues associated with space, place, and tourism mobilities.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2076-0787
Relation: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/12/4/65; https://doaj.org/toc/2076-0787
DOI: 10.3390/h12040065
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/d644b0c94ac04a08a601e15596bfe81b
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.644b0c94ac04a08a601e15596bfe81b
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:20760787
DOI:10.3390/h12040065