Abstract
AbstractThis paper critically negotiates the concept of the tourist landscape and proceeds, through a comparative cross-cultural empirical study, to test its basic conceptual premises in one upland and one seaside tourist destination, in Central Europe and in the Mediterranean. The conceptualization and employment of the term ‘tourist landscape’, in the social sciences and beyond, has been mostly intuitive and lacking a rigorous and broad-based conceptualization and empirical verification, incorporating its viewers’/users’ perceptions. On the basis of a conceptual model of the tourist landscape, the paper assesses conceptions and perceptions of the ‘tourist landscape’ and its constituent elements by tourists, locals, and tourism stakeholders in Zwierzyniec, Poland and Chios Island, Greece.
Highlights
Introduction and theoretical backgroundThe significance of landscape to the variety of experiences sought through or unfolding at a visited destination is well-established and considered paramount (Urry 1995, Löfgren 1999, Terkenli 2000, 2014, Cartier, Lew 2005, Mikulek 2011)
The survey started by asking the respondents: Can the landscape of Zwierzyniec/Chios be called a tourist landscape?, to which the authors received overwhelmingly positive answers (Table 2)
2.0 accordance with the users’ visit motives – and the main economic functions and services provided by the surveyed sites. These results confirm the appropriateness of the survey areas selected for this study of tourist landscape structure
Summary
The significance of landscape to the variety of experiences sought through or unfolding at a visited destination is well-established and considered paramount (Urry 1995, Löfgren 1999, Terkenli 2000, 2014, Cartier, Lew 2005, Mikulek 2011). The great variability, depth and significance of this relationship, in its proper time-space-culture context, largely remains empirically unexplored, especially as regards the role of the landscape in the tourist experience. Despite its importance, this issue is difficult to analyse, due to its multidimensional nature and the fact that landscape is connected with subjective or collective perceptions, by definition (Council of Europe 2000).
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