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Leisure and Tourism Psychology

Summing up:

The example of the social construction

of the perception of Nature

After the idealisation of nature as pictoresque (f.i. Claude Lorraine),

the man-made production of pictoresque landscapes (f.i. English Gardens),

the loading up of real regions with emotional values (f.i. Romantic Rhine),

the emotional values of half-preconceived far-away regions are searched for - and found (Gauguin).

The last step then is the de-spatialisation (Enträumlichung) of nature perception - beaches look the same everywhere und postcards transport more information about the tourist than the place.

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