'Just because it's gone doesn't mean it isn't there anymore': Planning for attraction residuality
Author(s)
Weaver, David Bruce
Lawton, Laura Jane
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2007
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New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain illustrates the concept of attraction residuality, wherein a destroyed iconic tourist site is reinvented as a residual attraction through a process of selected ex situ reconstruction and memorialisation. Various mechanical and social reproduction strategies characterise the latter component, including the construction of an off-site full-scale replica and the declaration of a commemoration day and annual awards. Applied more broadly into a specialised disaster planning framework, attraction residuality options can be expanded to include redefinition of the unaltered nucleus and in situ ...
View more >New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain illustrates the concept of attraction residuality, wherein a destroyed iconic tourist site is reinvented as a residual attraction through a process of selected ex situ reconstruction and memorialisation. Various mechanical and social reproduction strategies characterise the latter component, including the construction of an off-site full-scale replica and the declaration of a commemoration day and annual awards. Applied more broadly into a specialised disaster planning framework, attraction residuality options can be expanded to include redefinition of the unaltered nucleus and in situ reconstruction of the original icon.
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View more >New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain illustrates the concept of attraction residuality, wherein a destroyed iconic tourist site is reinvented as a residual attraction through a process of selected ex situ reconstruction and memorialisation. Various mechanical and social reproduction strategies characterise the latter component, including the construction of an off-site full-scale replica and the declaration of a commemoration day and annual awards. Applied more broadly into a specialised disaster planning framework, attraction residuality options can be expanded to include redefinition of the unaltered nucleus and in situ reconstruction of the original icon.
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Journal Title
Tourism Management
Volume
28
Issue
1
Subject
Commercial Services
Marketing
Tourism