Malin Zillinger
Biträdande prefekt, universitetslektor, docent
Free Guided Tours : Storytelling as a means of glocalizing urban places
Författare
Summary, in English
This article poses the question of how storytelling takes place in free guided tours. It aims to explore guides’ contributions to the glocalization of urban places. Theoretically, the study departs from the concepts of glocalization, place, and storytelling. Empirically, it builds on data from Copenhagen, Berlin, Warsaw and Tallinn, collected by means of participant observations and document studies. Results show that storytelling in free guided tours is based on recognizable narratives from the twentieth century. These in turn, relate both to local urban and to national histories. Likewise, storytelling is influenced by global influences formed by free guided tours as an international business model. Global influences are embodied in the guides, whose biographies accentuate their international experience as travellers. Their guiding practices have a strong influence on the practice of history. They have the power to choose attractions, movements, and stories. In the end, new forms of guiding practices and storytelling emerge. Important factors for this are: the collaborative business model, internationally experienced guides, guests’ previous knowledge, and the cities’ local context. The practices combine local context and cosmopolitan culture and thereby contribute to the glocalization of urban places.
Avdelning/ar
- Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap
Publiceringsår
2020-06-22
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
286-301
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism
Volym
20
Issue
3
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Taylor & Francis
Ämne
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Nyckelord
- urban tourism
- tourism geography
- urban geography
- Free guided tours
- storytelling
- practice of history
- glocalisation
- tourism geography
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1502-2250