Abstract
Photography as it relates to travel and tourism is unique compared with other types of photography because, as shown throughout its development, it is used to document the experiences and sights visited by travellers, but also has social underpinnings. Travel photography runs the gamut from solely featuring sites or landscapes, to including the traveller(s) with the site or landscape featured in the background. As tourism is uniquely visual, photography has been associated with sightseeing and being a tourist since its emergence in the early 19th century. The study of photography therefore emerges as a complex set of practices and behaviours as tourists and stakeholders within destinations, – such as destination management organizations, businesses, communities and charitable organizations – draw upon the power of the visual to capture the wide range of experiences that are produced and consumed within the tourists’ circle of representation
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