CITY SPACES AND TOURIST PLACES: A Study Of Particular Spaces In The City By, EKO NURSANTY International Seminar

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Abstract
Research has started to better understand the phenomenon of urban tourism and the city as a tourist destination. Tourism was not dispersed evenly and seamlessly throughout the city but rather was concentrated into relatively small, quite distinctive geographic areas precincts. The tourists experience was most commonly one of moving between these precincts in search of the city s highlights. Precincts were thus fundamental to understanding the phenomenon of urban tourism, but on reflection we appeared to know little about these places and what made them work, for tourists and other stakeholders within the city.

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City spaces & Tourist places

Tourist place

Tourist place

City Spaces
Tourist place

Tourist place

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Inner Tourist Places

Nature

Education

Shopping

City tour

Sport

Heritage
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Nature

The Facts
Nature

Education

Shopping

Tourist place
City tour Sport Nature

Heritage Education Shopping

Tourist place
City tour Heritage

Sport

City Spaces
Nature

Education

Shopping

Tourist place
Sport Heritage

City tour

Education

Shopping

Tourist place
City tour Sport Eko Nursanty, University of 17 Agustus 1945 (UNTAG) Semarang

Heritage

City Attributes for Tourist Destination

City Facilities

Transportation

Heritage

Accommodation

City

Nature

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City as Tourist Destination

Law (1996) argues that cities have retained their central focus as a tourist destination because of their inherent scale, locational attributes and opportunities for diverse experiences.
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Urban Tourism Precinct as Tourist Space in the City

Precinct

Precinct is Urban around city highlight as an areas that offer social, cultural, physical and aesthetic stages. A precinct event can be an effective way to:
Precinct

Precinct

City Highlight

Precinct

attract customers to the area in order to spend money in local businesses reinforce the precinct brand message and personality develop local market loyalty and interest, which in turn creates visitor interest.
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The study of tourist precincts

City Space Precinct City Facilities
Culture Nature Heritage Communal Space Leisure place Shopping, Dining, etc Accommodation Transportation

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Study of tourist precincts

The study of tourist precincts is a study of particular space in the city. Some of these spaces, particularly in large cities, form part of the everyday urban fabric where tourists and locals share communal space for purposes embedded into the urban lexicon of experience. Other precincts purposively stand apart from the everyday experience of the city with the potential to create reproductions of space. Most tourism precincts locate themselves somewhere between the two and each have the potential to create experience for their visitors

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Key ideas of the precincts

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General Contexts in Tourism Precincts

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Conclusion
Specific functions that precincts perform include: providing places for tourists to meet, orient themselves and begin the process of exploring a city; providing places that assist the tourist to compress their experience of the city and economize on their time and effort; providing respite or refuge from the everyday life of the city being visited; putting the tourist into a state of mind that reflects their desires as a tourist (at leisure) within a setting (the city) that is not normally associated with being a tourist; enabling the visitor to connect with the people of the city in a setting where the needs and mind-states of both tourists and residents are compatible; enabling the tourist to develop a better understanding of the city, its people and its history; providing opportunities for convivial encounters, with other tourists, with locals and with aspects of local life; enabling the tourist to experience a more distinctive sense of place than is afforded by an internationalized city centre; and providing an environment where the tourist has more freedom to wander and explore.
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