The Polar Cultural Heritage as a Tourism Attraction : A Case Study of the Airship Mooring Mast at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard
This paper explores the use of narratives in the transformation of historic sites in the polar regions into attractions and consumable tourism products. The analysis is based on a case study of visitation to the airship mooring mast built at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, for the 1926 “Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nob...
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fterudit:oai:erudit.org:1024834ar 2023-05-15T13:42:38+02:00 The Polar Cultural Heritage as a Tourism Attraction : A Case Study of the Airship Mooring Mast at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard Roura, Ricardo 2009 http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1024834ar https://doi.org/10.7202/1024834ar en eng Université du Québec à Montréal Érudit Téoros : Revue de recherche en tourisme vol. 28 no. 1 (2009) http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1024834ar doi:10.7202/1024834ar Tous droits réservés © Université du Québec à Montréal, 2009 cultural heritage Svalbard Spitsbergen polar tourism tourism attractions tourism narratives text 2009 fterudit https://doi.org/10.7202/1024834ar 2022-09-24T23:15:24Z This paper explores the use of narratives in the transformation of historic sites in the polar regions into attractions and consumable tourism products. The analysis is based on a case study of visitation to the airship mooring mast built at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, for the 1926 “Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile Transpolar Flight” of the airship Norge. The questions addressed in this paper are: How does cultural heritage in the polar regions operate as a tourist attraction? What is the role of tourism narratives in creating a tourism attraction? Direct observations constituted the main research method. Based on Dean MacCannell (1976) and Neil Leiper (1990), a tourism attraction is a system comprising a tourist or human element; a nucleus or central element; and a marker or informative element. Tourism narratives enable the different elements of the tourism attraction system to “click” together into a coherent whole. Through narratives, the mast becomes a place of significance and a symbolic marker of the North Pole and polar exploration. The application of this approach to other sites in Antarctica and Svalbard is discussed. Text Antarc* Antarctica North Pole Ny Ålesund Ny-Ålesund Svalbard Spitsbergen Érudit.org (Université Montréal) Nobile ENVELOPE(-61.433,-61.433,-64.550,-64.550) North Pole Ny-Ålesund Svalbard Téoros 28 1 29 38 |
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This paper explores the use of narratives in the transformation of historic sites in the polar regions into attractions and consumable tourism products. The analysis is based on a case study of visitation to the airship mooring mast built at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, for the 1926 “Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile Transpolar Flight” of the airship Norge. The questions addressed in this paper are: How does cultural heritage in the polar regions operate as a tourist attraction? What is the role of tourism narratives in creating a tourism attraction? Direct observations constituted the main research method. Based on Dean MacCannell (1976) and Neil Leiper (1990), a tourism attraction is a system comprising a tourist or human element; a nucleus or central element; and a marker or informative element. Tourism narratives enable the different elements of the tourism attraction system to “click” together into a coherent whole. Through narratives, the mast becomes a place of significance and a symbolic marker of the North Pole and polar exploration. The application of this approach to other sites in Antarctica and Svalbard is discussed. |
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