“Unothering” Wales. Domestication as a tourist marketing strategy

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Main Author: José Igor Prieto Arranz
Format: Artículo científico
Language:en
Published: Universidad de La Laguna 2004
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contents “Unothering” Wales. Domestication as a tourist marketing strategy José Igor Prieto Arranz Estudios de Turismo Wales England Ideology Otherness Domestication Tourists in Wales are overwhelmingly British and its national tourist organisation, WalesTourist Board, although certainly attempting to widen its share of foreign visitors, does pay special attentionto those promotional materials designed to target the domestic British readership. Such awardwinningmaterials will be analysed in the present work, which places special emphasis on their two mainfeatures: on the one hand, their embedded intertextual nature; on the other, the obvious taming or domesticationof Welshness. As a result, Wales is turned into a “gratifyingly dissimilar”, even perfected versionof England, mostly catering for the potential English tourist 2004 artículo científico 1695-7121 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=88120206 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=881 PASOS. Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural application/pdf Universidad de La Laguna PASOS. Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural (España) Num.2 Vol.2
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spellingShingle “Unothering” Wales. Domestication as a tourist marketing strategy
José Igor Prieto Arranz
Estudios de Turismo
Wales
England
Ideology
Otherness
Domestication
“Unothering” Wales. Domestication as a tourist marketing strategy José Igor Prieto Arranz Estudios de Turismo Wales England Ideology Otherness Domestication Tourists in Wales are overwhelmingly British and its national tourist organisation, WalesTourist Board, although certainly attempting to widen its share of foreign visitors, does pay special attentionto those promotional materials designed to target the domestic British readership. Such awardwinningmaterials will be analysed in the present work, which places special emphasis on their two mainfeatures: on the one hand, their embedded intertextual nature; on the other, the obvious taming or domesticationof Welshness. As a result, Wales is turned into a “gratifyingly dissimilar”, even perfected versionof England, mostly catering for the potential English tourist 2004 artículo científico 1695-7121 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=88120206 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=881 PASOS. Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural application/pdf Universidad de La Laguna PASOS. Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural (España) Num.2 Vol.2
title “Unothering” Wales. Domestication as a tourist marketing strategy
topic Estudios de Turismo
Wales
England
Ideology
Otherness
Domestication
url https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=88120206