How Do Tourists Turn Space into Place? – A Conceptualisation for Sustainable Place Marketing^☆

This chapter was delivered as a speech to the assembled Advances in Tourism Marketing Conference 2013, at Vilamoura, Portugal, 3 October.

Abstract

Gnoth and Mateucci (2014) develop a phenomenological point of view and explain how tourists’ consciousness of their own activity determines how they experience a destination. This model is applied here to see how golf tourists might experience their destination and turn it into a meaningful place. This chapter exemplifies how destinations may develop their own uniqueness as a competitive advantage by understanding how tourists create meanings of a destination (here a golf resort). They argue that it is the tourist’s individual propensity to react to a destination that shapes not only motivations, but also perception and evaluation of the experience.

Citation

Gnoth, J. (2015), "How Do Tourists Turn Space into Place? – A Conceptualisation for Sustainable Place Marketing^☆

This chapter was delivered as a speech to the assembled Advances in Tourism Marketing Conference 2013, at Vilamoura, Portugal, 3 October.

", Marketing Places and Spaces (Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, Vol. 10), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 315-326. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1871-317320150000010023