TY - JOUR
T1 - Tourists' perceptions in a climate of change
T2 - Eroding Destinations
AU - Buzinde, Christine N.
AU - Manuel-Navarrete, David
AU - Yoo, Eunice Eunjung
AU - Morais, Duarte
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was, in part, supported by funding from the UK Economic and Social Research Council (grant RES-062-23-0367). The authors would like to thank the Riviera Maya Tourism officials and Dr. John Dattilo for their valuable comments on this paper.
PY - 2010/4
Y1 - 2010/4
N2 - This research examines tourists' perceptions of a coastal destination that has suffered severe beach erosion and is undergoing beach replenishment. Officials assume that tourist will inevitably react negatively to the transformed landscape; however, the findings indicate that tourists decode the site in polysemous ways. This study engages Lefebvre's triadic model of social space to inform the discussion of the symbolic landscapes meanings constructed by producers and consumers. The key argument is that in the advent of global climate change, both the material and social elements have to be considered to devise long-term adaptation measures. The findings shed light on complexities involved in tourism destination's adaptation to geomorphologic/climatic changes as well as contested meanings that emerge from the human-environment relationship.
AB - This research examines tourists' perceptions of a coastal destination that has suffered severe beach erosion and is undergoing beach replenishment. Officials assume that tourist will inevitably react negatively to the transformed landscape; however, the findings indicate that tourists decode the site in polysemous ways. This study engages Lefebvre's triadic model of social space to inform the discussion of the symbolic landscapes meanings constructed by producers and consumers. The key argument is that in the advent of global climate change, both the material and social elements have to be considered to devise long-term adaptation measures. The findings shed light on complexities involved in tourism destination's adaptation to geomorphologic/climatic changes as well as contested meanings that emerge from the human-environment relationship.
KW - Beach erosion
KW - Coastal tourism
KW - Human-environment relationships
KW - Tourism representations
KW - Tourist perceptions
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U2 - 10.1016/j.annals.2009.09.006
DO - 10.1016/j.annals.2009.09.006
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77950169267
SN - 0160-7383
VL - 37
SP - 333
EP - 354
JO - Annals of Tourism Research
JF - Annals of Tourism Research
IS - 2
ER -