Meloy, Grace
(2014)
Circulation, access, and tourist experience: Berlin's center and periphery as case study.
Undergraduate Thesis, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
The desire for authenticity has been recognized to be one of the main factors affecting tourist behavior and experience. It is not, however, the only variable. Circulation and access, topics that belong to the hereto-limited genre of sociology known as “mobilities,” also affect how tourists behave and experience a tourist environment. Indeed, the circulation of tourists and access to tourist sites, which are influenced by the built environment, the limitations of physical infrastructure, and tourist resources, impact how tourists interact and experience space, and thereby fundamentally affect their behavior and experience. Through critical reexamination of secondary literature, assessment of primary sources such as guidebooks, tourist websites, and city maps, and site analysis, I compare the tourist environment that constitutes Berlin’s central district, Mitte, with two sites in Berlin’s periphery, the Soviet War Memorial and Cemetery in Treptower Park and the former Stasi prison memorial in Hohenschönhausen, through the perspective of accessibility and circulation. This includes a visual analysis of the movement from the center into the periphery to more fully understand how circulation and access affect the experience of these sites and, more broadly, the tourist environment of the periphery. This exploration of the two distinct tourist environments present in Berlin, that of the central tourist enclave and that of the city’s periphery, reveals advantages and disadvantages that traditional tourist studies would not and demonstrates the significance of studying how tourists circulate, access, and ultimately interact with tourist sites and the built environment to developing our understanding of tourist experience.
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University of Pittsburgh ETD
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| Status: |
Unpublished |
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| Creators | Email | Pitt Username | ORCID  |
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| Meloy, Grace | | | |
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| Date: |
2 May 2014 |
| Date Type: |
Publication |
| Defense Date: |
3 April 2014 |
| Approval Date: |
2 May 2014 |
| Submission Date: |
17 April 2014 |
| Access Restriction: |
No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately. |
| Number of Pages: |
65 |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
David C. Frederick Honors College
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > Architectural Studies |
| Degree: |
BPhil - Bachelor of Philosophy |
| Thesis Type: |
Undergraduate Thesis |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Tourism, imageability, tourist environments, center, periphery, authenticity, circulation, access, tourist experience |
| Date Deposited: |
02 May 2014 17:59 |
| Last Modified: |
14 Nov 2024 18:45 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21284 |
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