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Johan Hultman.

Johan Hultman

Professor

Johan Hultman.

Tourist Place-Making in Practice

Author

  • Johan Hultman

Summary, in English

Tourist attractions emerge in stakeholder negotiation processes, where a critical issue is how different notions of meaning and value are argued and expressed. This article investigates this process of meaning production in practice through four examples of tourist attraction developments in Southern Sweden. Instances where tourist attractiveness is defined by stakeholders are analyzed by showing how this attractiveness is framed as expressions of locality. The analysis adopts a social constructivist perspective on meaning production. It is concluded that critical reflection of how places become attractive in practice is needed to make sense of the dynamics between the generic and the particular in tourism analysis and management.

Department/s

  • Department of Service Studies

Publishing year

2010

Language

English

Publication/Series

Annals of Tourism Research

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Pergamon Press Ltd.

Topic

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • governance
  • local attractiveness
  • social construction
  • meaning production
  • practice

Status

Submitted

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1873-7722