Image formation and its contribution to tourism development in Canada's northwest territories: Past and present

• Main Author: Amoamo, Maria
• Other Authors: Boyd, Stephen
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Tourism; language; consumer demand; natural and cultural heritage; visual; oral; consumer centred marketing; Image; HF Commerce; HF5601 Accounting; GV Recreation Leisure; Ahola; Arctic; Ashworth; Beck; Boden; Canada; Coates; Dyer; Fontana; Fort Smith; Gardner; Grande Valley; Gunn; Harper; Hay River; Hayes; Igloolik; Lone; Mackay; Macpherson; McIntosh; McIntyre; Methuen; Morrison; New Zealand; Northwest Passage; Northwest Territories; Ritchie; Saarinen; Saura; Seaton; Selwyn; Stefansson; Yellowknife; Yukon; Northwest passage
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/1269

Tourism research has traditionally focused on the demand side of tourist motivation and behavioural patterns to discover why tourists visit particular destinations. This thesis explored from a supply side perspective, how image and language are used by tourism suppliers/operators to promote destinat...