ISSN:
1476-6825
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of tourism and cultural change : JTCC
Publ. der Quelle:
Clevedon : Multilingual Matters & Channel View Publications
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 15, No. 2 (2017), p. 152-166
DDC:
380
Abstract:
This article is a contribution to the developing body of research on tourism within the region of the Central and Eastern Europe. Our aim is to explore if and how Polish tourists to the former Soviet Union incorporate a historic past in their imaginaries. Sixty interviews carried out between 2008 and 2012 are analysed in order to establish if there are references to the past in tourist accounts although the fact history was not a major travel motivation. We were also interested in how the past co-creates tourist experiences and destination images. We found out that tourists may question dominant versions of historic memory in their straightforward references to the past. We also discovered that sources of memory are multiple and include not only first-hand memory but also family memory as well as non-representational memory. Some tourists purposefully suppressed the past. We suggest that more attention should be paid to 'traces' of the past in tourism imaginaries.
Note:
Copyright: © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group 2016
DOI:
10.1080/14766825.2016.1260145
URL:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14766825.2016.1260145
URL:
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1870002880
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