TY - JOUR
T1 - Representations and adaptation to climate change
AU - Buzinde, Christine N.
AU - Manuel-Navarrete, David
AU - Kerstetter, Deborah
AU - Redclift, Michael
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank local officials who facilitated the evolution of the current study. This research was, in part, supported by funding from the UK Economic and Social Research Counci l (grant RES-062-23-0367 ).
Copyright:
Copyright 2010 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2010/7
Y1 - 2010/7
N2 - Tourism representations evoking stable and pristine landscapes are increasingly challenged by environmental degradation, exacerbated by climate change, as well as tourists' use of online travel networking sites. This study examines this statement by juxtaposing brochure content produced by 12 hotels located in Playacar, Mexico - a coastal tourism enclave devastated by biophysical changes in the natural landscape - to online tourists' co-constructions of the same landscape. The findings reveal that despite the biophysical changes, the industry continues to promote essentialist representations and tourists are increasingly using online networking sites to counter these dominant promotional narratives. It is argued that promoters will need to embrace non essentialist frames that portray landscape dynamism and the inextricable co-evolution between humans and the environment.
AB - Tourism representations evoking stable and pristine landscapes are increasingly challenged by environmental degradation, exacerbated by climate change, as well as tourists' use of online travel networking sites. This study examines this statement by juxtaposing brochure content produced by 12 hotels located in Playacar, Mexico - a coastal tourism enclave devastated by biophysical changes in the natural landscape - to online tourists' co-constructions of the same landscape. The findings reveal that despite the biophysical changes, the industry continues to promote essentialist representations and tourists are increasingly using online networking sites to counter these dominant promotional narratives. It is argued that promoters will need to embrace non essentialist frames that portray landscape dynamism and the inextricable co-evolution between humans and the environment.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.annals.2009.10.018
DO - 10.1016/j.annals.2009.10.018
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77952886704
SN - 0160-7383
VL - 37
SP - 581
EP - 603
JO - Annals of Tourism Research
JF - Annals of Tourism Research
IS - 3
ER -
