Sense of Place in Tourism and Leisure: the Case of Touring Skiers in Quebec
The concept of sense of place has become central in understanding various modern phenomena in leisure. Tourism promoters in outdoor recreation now emphasize opportunities to bond with nature, with ‘wild’ landscapes or with the authentic value of a destination. However, studying this tourism and recr...
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| description | The concept of sense of place has become central in understanding various modern phenomena in leisure. Tourism promoters in outdoor recreation now emphasize opportunities to bond with nature, with ‘wild’ landscapes or with the authentic value of a destination. However, studying this tourism and recreation issue from the standpoint of ‘place’, which draws upon notions of attendance, identification and social and individual meaning, is lacking in modern studies. This paper, based on a quantitative approach using a questionnaire survey administered to touring skiers in Quebec (n=829), thus aims to present the links between various practice settings and the perceived meaning and identification that skiers attach to their practice sites. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3d5018a554964aeb87cae1407052df7f2022-12-22T03:50:15ZengUniversity of BolognaAlmatourism2036-51952016-07-01713799410.6092/issn.2036-5195/59965670Sense of Place in Tourism and Leisure: the Case of Touring Skiers in QuebecRomain Roult0Jean-Marc Adjizian1Denis Auger2University of QuebecUniversity of OttawaUniversity of QuebecThe concept of sense of place has become central in understanding various modern phenomena in leisure. Tourism promoters in outdoor recreation now emphasize opportunities to bond with nature, with ‘wild’ landscapes or with the authentic value of a destination. However, studying this tourism and recreation issue from the standpoint of ‘place’, which draws upon notions of attendance, identification and social and individual meaning, is lacking in modern studies. This paper, based on a quantitative approach using a questionnaire survey administered to touring skiers in Quebec (n=829), thus aims to present the links between various practice settings and the perceived meaning and identification that skiers attach to their practice sites.https://almatourism.unibo.it/article/view/5996LeisureTourismSense of placeSki touringQuebec |
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| title | Sense of Place in Tourism and Leisure: the Case of Touring Skiers in Quebec |
| title_full | Sense of Place in Tourism and Leisure: the Case of Touring Skiers in Quebec |
| title_fullStr | Sense of Place in Tourism and Leisure: the Case of Touring Skiers in Quebec |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sense of Place in Tourism and Leisure: the Case of Touring Skiers in Quebec |
| title_short | Sense of Place in Tourism and Leisure: the Case of Touring Skiers in Quebec |
| title_sort | sense of place in tourism and leisure the case of touring skiers in quebec |
| topic | Leisure Tourism Sense of place Ski touring Quebec |
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