This chapter deals with interpretation of heritage attractions. More specifically, it looks at mobile interpretation techniques, discusses their pros and cons, and presents findings from a study on the use of audio-guides conducted at a major museum in Vienna. The findings show that the majority of ...

This chapter discusses a typology of photographic approaches and practices that has been constructed as a result of this study. Owing to the individual and changing nature of experience, it is argued that a typology of tourists should not be created. This research, however, looks at how people...

This chapter promotes innovative qualitative approaches in general and the use of visual methods in particular within cultural tourism research. It does this because a great number of cultural tourism researchers seem to have long had a preference for quantitative rather than qualitative research...

This chapter discusses how visual ethnography can help understand the significance of material culture within tourism. It analyses two videos of tourists shopping for souvenirs in a curio market in Swaziland (Southern Africa). These videos evoke 'how all types of material, intangible, spoken and...

This book discusses various quantitative and qualitative methods in cultural tourism research. The book consists of 17 articles on the traditional quantitative approach, methodological triangulation, application of the grounded theory, visual methods, grand tour approach, collage technique,...

This chapter shows the relevance of time-space behaviour when trying to understand the behaviour, motivations and the experience of cultural tourists within the city of Breda in the Netherlands.

This introductory chapter discusses the objective of the book entitled "Tourism and Visual Culture", and how it is organized. This book examines detailed methodological examples of visual concepts and their use in value in advancing knowledge and understanding of tourism beyond business and...