Document Type
Book Chapter
Rights
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Disciplines
5.9 OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES
Abstract
This chapter explores notions of authenticity in terms of the photographs taken by tourists while on holiday. Some tourists photograph attributes of the host’s culture that they perceive as “authentic”, while ignoring, editing, or erasing aspects that conflict with their “imagined” views. Drawing upon methods of participant-informed photo-ethnography used in a study of US tourists’ holiday photographs of Ireland, tourists will be resituated in this chapter as “editors” in their own photographic reproductions of place. Moreover, by focusing attention to how they confer meaning on destinations and the people who live in them, through the embodied performance of photography, this chapter explores tourists’ notions of authenticity.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1108/S1571-504320180000024008
Recommended Citation
Ruane, S., Quinn, B. and Flanagan, S. (2018). Tourists’ Photographic Constructions of Place in Ireland. In Authenticity & Tourism, (Tourism Social Science Series, Vol. 24), Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 129-144. doi:10.1108/S1571-504320180000024008