1. PLACES OF MEMORY IN MARKETING COMMUNICATION OF TOURISM DESTINATIONS IN CZECH REPUBLIC.
- Author
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Tyslová, Irena
- Subjects
TOURIST attractions ,TOURISM marketing ,TOURISM management ,DESTINATION management companies - Abstract
This paper aims to broaden the economy and management centered tourism discourse by social sciences, specifically the theory of memory. Using work of Morice Halbwachs, Jan Assmann, Charles R. Goeldner and J.R. Brent Richie and others, we define places of memory as destination attractivity and describe their characteristics (relation to identity, representation). Data for the research were collected by a) semi-structured interviews with 53 destination managers and regional tourism coordinators and b) semantic analysis of the marketing destination communication of tourism products, primarily the web page and logo of each of the destinations. The research was conducted in 2016 and 2017. This paper answers following questions: Which places of memory do the tourism destinations in Czech Republic most often use in their destination communication? Are these places identical to the places of memory perceived by the destination managers as places defining the identity of the destination? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018