The Virtual Tourist in Greece, 1897-1905

Mahn, CK (2014) The Virtual Tourist in Greece, 1897-1905 Annals of Tourism Research, 48. pp. 193-206.

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Abstract

While travelling in Greece in 1892, a British tourist wryly commented on a group of tourists arriving in Athens who were travelling with nothing but a Baedeker guidebook and a pair of opera glasses (Armstrong, 1892). By 1892 tourist images were beginning to determine the benchmark for authentic vistas of Greece. This argument analyses an early technology for generating three dimensional images of Greece and the technological, ideological and discursive features that distinguish a particular iteration of the early tourist gaze. The study seeks to bring research from the humanities on tourism in Greece to a broader audience as a means of investigating the potential for more productive cross-flows in research covering tourism and the arts and humanities. HIGHLIGHTS: • Research in tourism to Greece in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is predominantly conducted in the arts and humanities. • Tourist guidebooks to Greece in the nineteenth century shift from a focus on oriental to classical stereotypes. • Stereoscopic guides through Greece in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries reproduced, and contradicted, guidebook stereotypes. KEYWORDS: Greece, interdisciplinary, stereoscope, visual, guidebook

Item Type:	Article
Divisions :	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > School of English and Languages
Authors :	Authors Email ORCID Mahn, CK UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
Date :	September 2014
Identification Number :	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2014.06.001
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Additional Information :	NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Annals of Tourism Research. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Annals of Tourism Research, 48, September 2014, DOI 10.1016/j.annals.2014.06.001.
Depositing User :	Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited :	29 Oct 2014 12:43
Last Modified :	29 Oct 2014 14:33
URI:	http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/804693

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