The tourist imaginary in Costa Rica: from a “way of seeing” to “making a territory”
Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: The representation of a peaceful state, without an army as well as the representation of wild nature are the two main constituents of Costa Rican tourist identity. The tourist imaginary is so powerful that it has led Costa Rica to become the top eco-tourism destination in the Central American ithmus. If this tourist imaginary is repsonsible for the creation of tourist sites, it is also involved in the construction of the territorial identity of Costa Rica by creating territorial symbols from which the national collective identification has taken shape. The tourist imaginary is not only a way of “seeing” the world but is “world-making”.
Source: Via Tourism Review
Author: Linda Boukhris
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2766894286