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A framework of tourist attraction research

Annals o ?krrrm ?xarch Vol pp - Printed m the USA All nghts reserved CopyrIght Perxamon Journals Inc and J Jalan A FRAMEWORK OF TOURIST ATTRACTION RESEARCH Alan A Lew Northern Arizona University USA Abstract Although tourist attractions are fundamental to the very existence of tourism there have been few attempts to come to terms with the breadth of approaches that have been employed in their study An examination of research methods used in the study of tourist attractions and the tourist attractiveness of places reveals that most studies can be classi ?ed into one or more of three general perspectives the ideographic listing the organization and the tourist cognition of attractions Each of these perspectives shares a distinct set of questions concerning the nature of the attractions as expressed through the typologies used in their evaluation At the same time all three perspectives make comparisons based on the historical locational and various valuational aspects of attractions This framework can be applied in the comparison and evaluation of tourist attraction related research Keywords tourist attraction research methods research evaluation R umC Un cadre pour la recherche sur les attractions touristiques Bien que les attractions touristiques soient fondamentales g l ? existence mCme du tourisme on n ? a pas souvent consid les di ?erentes facons d ? iborder ce sujet Une investigation des mCthodes de recherche que I ? on peut employer pour etudier les attractions touristiques aussi bien que le degrt d ? inttrCt touristique d ? un endroit don rCvtle que la plupart des Ctudes peuvent tre classtes dans au moins une des trois catkgories suivantes le listage ideographique l ? organisation et la connaissance touristique des attractions Chacune de ces catCgories comprend une sCrie distincte de questions au sujet de la nature des attractions tel que cette nature s ? exprime travers les typologies qui sont employCes dans I ? tvaluation des attractions Tout en ant distinctes l ? une de l ? autre chaque cattgorie se base sur des comparaisons semblables de l ? histoire de l ? emplacement et d ? autres aspects tvaluables des attractions On peut utiliser ce cadre pour comparer et Cvaluer les travaux de recherche relatifs aux attractions touristiques Mots clef attraction touristique methodes de recherche tvaluation de recherches Alan Lew is Assistant Professor of geography and public planning Department of Geograph Box Northern Arizona University Flagsta ? AZ USA He received his doctorate from the University of Oregon His research interests include tourism and urban development with particular emphasis on the western US and Asia C TOC ? RIST ATTRACTION RESEARCH THE TOURIST ATTRACTION Without tourist attractions there would be no tourism Gunn Without tourism there would be no tourist attractions Although a tautology such an argument still points to the fundamental importance of tourist attractions and the attractiveness of places to tourism E ?orts at speci ?city often reduce the simple concept of ??tourist attraction ? to exploitable ??resources ? Ferrario marketable ??products ? Wahab et al and ??images