Barcelona, tourist destination. A century of images and public promotion
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tourism, tourist destinationAbstract
The study of the tourist image, although a relatively new field within tourism, has been given a great boost in recent years. Already in the late 1970s Miossec argued that a tourist destination is nothing but an image, a mental representation. It must be assumed that these are not innocent images and that they are charged with the ideologies of their promoters. Taking into account the very nature of the tourist event (in the sense that it is produced and consumed in the same place and at the same time) means that a tourist landscape does not exist before this representation is created (Chadefaud, 1987). Thus, the tourism industry is based on the production, distribution and marketing of images (Pereiro, 2011). At the beginning of the last century, Muntañola argued that the prestige of a territory depends on its tourist prestige
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