Travel and Tourism

Can you think of a place that has a strong sense of place? How about a placeless place? Most communities have example of both and leisure landscapes can be of both types, as well. Have you ever heard of Paris as being a romantisc place to visit? Does Paris have some magical air or water thar transforms people into romantics? What Paris has developed is a sense of place that includes love and romance, The environtment provides an atmosphere of love based on its history,architecture,culture an mythology.

Many tourists are attracted to specific places because of an established sense of place expectation. For example, certain older retail districts provided particular fascination for vositors by offering experiences of the past or of other places. Thematic retail districts include historic preservation districts,waterfront fisherman's wharf districts, and more playful cowboy towns and Scandinavian or German communities.

The importance of sense of place and tourism is clear. Tourism travel to places for specific reasons. Many of those reasons are because the destination ha a known sense of places. Whether the sense of places is based on religion, art, romance, food, or just for cultural information, people travel for the experience. Places all over the globe provide those experiences for different meanings and at different degrees of personal signifcance