dinsdag 23 augustus 2016

Human - Landscape interaction Cairns

Today I saw a Facebook message of the Zion National Park.
(Posted Aug 18)


The Park:
"Rock graffiti is not natural. It's a form of vandalism. Rock graffiti, even if seemingly impermanent, disturbs the natural state of the environment for other visitors."

Some Facebookers agree, some say the park's opinion is way over the top.



Well, that's an interesting phenomenon.

Are the tourists in the national parks natural? Are the natural parks natural?

In protected areas or cultural heritage sites this people-practice is probably unwanted. Don't want to build these cairns of Palmyra heritage stones.

Cairns are longstanding manmade objects in nature, perhaps you recognise them from mountain tops or along trails.

 
(Wikipedia commons)

Adagium for urban explorers/photographers: leave nothing but footsteps, take nothing but pictures.
Many tourists, pilgrims, travelers however like to leave a 'I was here' (ego cairns), I'm part of this landscape, a souvenir not taken home. The objects become part of the landscape.

On the Camino the Santiago, in itself a manmade trail, people often see these sculptures as an important practice. What anthropologist Tim Ingold would call a taskscape.

For those who walked: remember the impressive tens of thousands of crosses in fences in several places?


 (P Kouwenberg)


Perhaps I'll come back with another People Leaving Identity subject ;-)

 (P Kouwenberg)
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zaterdag 6 augustus 2016

Film and tourism a popular update

This item is just an update of recent popular news on film and tourism,
film induced tourism.


Earlier items on this subject in this blog include

or

 The following examples are no traditional pilgrimage endeavour. Allthough, several scholars (Couldry, Hills, Beeton) consider film-induced tourism as a contemporary form of pilgrimage (says Leotta in 2016 Navigating Movie (M)apps). 

Don't know where to go during holidays? Some suggestions..


Dunkirk

Announcement trailer of the 2017 movie.



The tourist office is preped for embracing the market, click to go



See article in Viewnews on the fans in the harbour, click to go


As film shootings were also in Dutch Urk, why not make that part of your hunt.
See article here.

And for more background on film tourism in Nord Pas de Calais see this entry on northern-france-tourism.


Rail Bookings

Travel weekly had an item on increasing rail tourism due to film tourism.
“This year, for example, we can report that countries including Spain, Austria and Switzerland, all of which have been involved in major motion pictures recently, enjoyed a healthy increase in the number of train travellers from Australia and New Zealand in the first half of 2016."


 See full article here.
Norway overcrowded

Tourism to Norway increased since Disney's 2013 movie Frozen.
Damon's 2017 movie Downsizing will give another boost.



"Fredrik Sørdal, the mayor of the nearby town of Flakstad said the growth in tourism was “challenging”, warning that infrastructure was already at breaking point, with acute problems with waste disposal, public toilets and parking, and severe erosion on paths leading to popular coastal locations.  
 
“In Flakstad we have for example become extremely unbalanced when it comes to tourism this year, and need to take many measures before next year,” he said."


And finally some relativation:
"Depressingly, studies worldwide have shown that cinematic tourism has a limited life span as far as pulling tourists is concerned. In most cases, they are effective in kindling thoughts about a place in the minds of the clientele for a period of 4-6 months only."
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