Refining Tourist's Place Experience through Placemaking: Concepts and Correlations.
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- Category: Tourism and Hospitality
- Published: Friday, 08 August 2008 03:26
- Posted by Zakariya, Khalilah
Experiencing places is an integral process in tourism. The outcome of the experience will either have a longlasting impact on the tourists or just merely a short-term impression of the place visited. Studies on tourist experience have been widely discussed to better understand the diverse processes and variables involved in creating a positive tourist experience. Place experience is closely related to both fields of landscape architecture and tourism planning. Spaces created become places, and places act as the setting where tourists interact with the people and experience the environment of the destination visited. Therefore, as designers and planners of places, it is vital to understand what makes a great destination in order to give a high quality of experience to tourists. This paper aims to discuss tourist experience from the perspective of place experience. An epigrammatic theoretical exploration and studies on concepts of place are conducted to better understand what makes a place and how a place influences tourist experience. [Download]
