Historical Data

Question 1

4 types of historical data

Answer 1

1. Statistics - little prior to 1900, most prior to 1920’s for health/security, stats getting more comprehensive, still major gaps, to much relies on sampling
2. Personal documents - diaries, letters, go back to earliest travellers, only real source c20th
3. Mass communication - magazines, newspapers, tv, brochures, guidebooks
4. Other sources - pre history through archaeology, diplomatic records, archives of travel films
   All historical data has particular problems with bias

Question 2

Urrys 9 characteristics

Answer 2

1. Leisure activity that presupposes its opposite
2. Tourist relationships involve movement and a stay - journey/destination
3. The journey and stay are out of the ordinary - short term, intention to return home
4. Places gazed upon are not connected to our work, offer contrasts - gaze on sites of others work
5. Many do it in modern society - fastest growing industry
6. Anticipate pleasure - utopian tourists, anticipation of pleasure
7. We gaze at features separated from our everyday - out of the ordinary because they are someone else’s ordinary
8. Gaze constructed through signs - semiotics (study of signs), object, idea, experience
9. Array of tourist professionals - in contemporary society, professionals are there to create for us