Study record: the Social Construction of Tourism Destinations
Content
Introduction 2
Main body 2
Introduction of Social Construction 2
What is Social Construction? 2
Comparison with Image Research 3
What is Image Research 3
Comparison between Social Construction and Image Research 4
Place promotion (When social construction comes to tourism destination) 4
Definition and Contents: 5
Importance of Place Promotion 5
strategy Principle 6
Promotion Techniques 7
Evaluation of Place Promotion by Place Consumption 10
Conclusion 12
Introduction
Ordinary place is not the tourist place. However, ordinary place can turn into tourist place if the place has some particular meanings and values in attracting tourists. As a result, the social construction of tourist place has special history meanings and value to some extent, which can motivate the tourists having desire to see it themselves. One hand, the tourist place has great value or history meanings for the development of human beings and society. Other hand, the social construction will be designed according to the features and requirement of tourist place. Moreover, the tourist can have great impacts on the tourist place in lifestyle, consumption, and culture. Generally speaking, Social construction is influenced by many factors, such as social system, culture features, habits, and history. This research record tries to introduce and explain some theories and opinions through comparison and contrast among a series of literature works concerning the theme of social construction of tourism destination. Therefore, to identify and summarize the consensus and different opinions in this field, evaluate those contentions and indicate the development trend through the literature works identified. This research will firstly explain the social construction and the comparison between social construction and image research. Following this, it will provide place promotion through five aspects, such as definition and content of place promotion, the importance of place promotion, the principle of place promotion, promotion techniques, and evaluation of place promotion according to place consumption.
Main body
Introduction of Social Construction
As the literature meaning showed in the theme of this study record, it includes two key points to explore further. One concerns “social construction” and anther one is what does it like when social construction comes to “tourism destination”. In this introduction part, I present the knowledge’s and information concerning social construction that was got from a range of literatures and other Media, which includes two main parts: the definition of social construction and comparison with image research, another mainstream research theory in tourism.
What is Social Construction?
According to Ian Hacking (born 02/18/1936, a famous philosopher who specializes in Philosophy of Science), social construction can be defined by the term of “The social construction of X” or “Contracting X” as:
(0) According to the present state of affairs, X is taken for granted; X seems to be inevitable. (Hacking 1999)
(1) X need not have existe，英语毕业论文，英语毕业论文 |
