Visitor learning at a heritage attraction: a case study of Discovery as a media product
Tourism ManagementPublished 1 February 1998
Richard Prentice, Sinéad Guerin, Stuart McGugan
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This paper evaluates the extent tourists learn at a visitor attraction; and possible influences on this. An attraction is chosen for a case evaluation which is highly symbolic; historically, in terms of scientific endeavour, and in terms of contemporary imaging. Attentional, affective, cognitive and compensatory processes are evaluated in the context of the media of the attraction studied
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