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Towards a New Role Model of the Contemporary Architectural Tourist

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Classification is a precondition for all kinds of statistical measurements, decision-making processes and a target-oriented marketing. It almost seems that, from an economic point of view, what cannot be classified cannot be measured and what cannot be measured does not exist. Tourism, as an important element of many national and regional economies, is no exception to this rule. Therefore, in both science and practice, tourists are, according to their primary purposes of travel, often put into fixed categories such as business, leisure, sun-and-beach, visiting friend and family etc. However, not least when it comes to urban tourism, one might ask if this concept is still (or ever was) reasonable. For instance, one might come to a city for business reasons or an event, while still spending a large part of his stay with the consumption of all kinds of appealing urban elements.

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    Dr. Jan Specht

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Specht, J. (2015). Towards a New Role Model of the Contemporary Architectural Tourist. In: Sonnenburg, S., Wee, D. (eds) Touring Consumption. Management – Culture – Interpretation. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-10019-3_14

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