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The Tourist Attraction Site: Attraction. Lew (1987) Examined The Different Ways That Researchers Defined Attrac

1) The document discusses different approaches to defining and categorizing tourist attractions. It examines attractions based on their form/identity, organizational structure, and the perceived experiences they provide. 2) Attractions are often categorized based on characteristics like their name, type (e.g. museums, parks, events), and Standard Industrial Codes. They can also be divided into categories like geographical, cultural, social, technological, and religious. 3) The main types of formal attractions are nature-based attractions and human-based attractions, with some attractions blending both natural and human elements. Attractions are commonly structured and categorized to be relevant to the specific destination being examined.

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1) The document discusses different approaches to defining and categorizing tourist attractions. It examines attractions based on their form/identity, organizational structure, and the perceived experiences they provide. 2) Attractions are often categorized based on characteristics like their name, type (e.g. museums, parks, events), and Standard Industrial Codes. They can also be divided into categories like geographical, cultural, social, technological, and religious. 3) The main types of formal attractions are nature-based attractions and human-based attractions, with some attractions blending both natural and human elements. Attractions are commonly structured and categorized to be relevant to the specific destination being examined.

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of the tourist is seldom considered because he or she is visually separated from the

attraction. The tourist is, therefore, taken-for-granted in a more common definition of


attractions. The meaning or purpose of the attraction is less taken-for-granted by most
people. But instead of meaning, most people view this as the attraction’s importance.
Attractions are perceived by tourists to be ranked above or below each other in impor-
tance. The hierarchy of attractions will vary from one person to the next based on the
set of available attractions that a tourist is aware of, depth of knowledge that the tour-
ist has of each attraction, and the tourist’s personal interests.

The Tourist Attraction Site

It is the attraction site that most people think of when they hear the word tourist
attraction. Lew (1987) examined the different ways that researchers defined attrac-
tions when they conduct attraction inventories and found three distinct approaches.
Although they were often mixed together in a single list of attractions, each is actually
a characteristic that all attractions share. These characteristics are:

1. a form, identity or name


2. an organizational and developmental structure
3. a perceived experience

At their most basic level, attractions are identified by their individual name. Lists of
attractions by name are most often used in inventories of small areas, such as towns
or small cities. At the other end of the form approach is the use of Standard Industrial
Codes (SICs, such as accommodations, restaurants, retail stores) to identify gen-
eral types of attractions. SIC-based attractions can be useful to determine monetary
flows because governments use them to summarize economic census data. Schmidt
(1979) suggested that attractions are best divided into geographical, social, cultural,
technological and religious. Schmidt’s approach is typical of that used in attraction
inventories to assess the tourism supply in a destination, though these vary consider-
ably in details from one place to the next. Tourist guide books usually classify attrac-
tions under a combination of both specific names for the most important sites, and
more general categories. Guidebook categories vary from one destination to another,
though they typically include the general categories of retail stores, restaurants,
accommodations, museums, amusements, sports and recreation.
The two basic types of formal attractions are nature-based attractions and human-
based attractions, although there is a transition between them, which results in a third
type of attractions. Examples of these are shown in Table 1.2. In practice these types
of forma attractions are divided up among categories that are most relevant to a spe-
cific destination.

Tourist Attraction Structure

The structural approach to tourist attractions does not examine the individual
attraction’s form or identity, but instead focuses on its spatial, capacity and temporal
nature. Geographic size is the simplest basis for categorizing the spatial character of

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