TY - CHAP
T1 - Travel beautifully
T2 - The role of aesthetics in experience design
AU - Kirillova, Ksenia
AU - Wassler, Philipp
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - Tourism research has been largely unconcerned with the aesthetic dimension, although few attempts have recently begun to surface. In this chapter, the authors highlight a multifaceted process of incorporating aesthetics in tourist experience design, based on a three-level framework for theming. The first level is based on aesthetic features of destinations as atmospherics. The second level deals with multisensory atmospherics, transcending the mere visual focus of the tourist gaze. Key experiences of the beautiful, sublime and picturesque are deeply embedded in visual, somatic, olfactory, auditory and gustatory decoding of aesthetic markers. The third level deals with the human factor in atmospherics, particularly focussing on the role of residents. Through a discursive lens, local people are simultaneously identified as sources, co-creators and beneficiaries of aesthetic environments. Thus, the chapter hopes to open possibilities for exploring experiences of atmospherics (including aesthetics) through a dialectic approach.
AB - Tourism research has been largely unconcerned with the aesthetic dimension, although few attempts have recently begun to surface. In this chapter, the authors highlight a multifaceted process of incorporating aesthetics in tourist experience design, based on a three-level framework for theming. The first level is based on aesthetic features of destinations as atmospherics. The second level deals with multisensory atmospherics, transcending the mere visual focus of the tourist gaze. Key experiences of the beautiful, sublime and picturesque are deeply embedded in visual, somatic, olfactory, auditory and gustatory decoding of aesthetic markers. The third level deals with the human factor in atmospherics, particularly focussing on the role of residents. Through a discursive lens, local people are simultaneously identified as sources, co-creators and beneficiaries of aesthetic environments. Thus, the chapter hopes to open possibilities for exploring experiences of atmospherics (including aesthetics) through a dialectic approach.
KW - Beautiful
KW - Destination aesthetic qualities
KW - Multisensory experience
KW - Picturesque
KW - Residents
KW - Sublime
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85075180369&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1108/S1871-317320190000016017
DO - 10.1108/S1871-317320190000016017
M3 - Chapter in an edited book (as author)
AN - SCOPUS:85075180369
T3 - Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research
SP - 153
EP - 163
BT - Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research
PB - Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
ER -