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    Rights statement: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Tourism History on 05/01/2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1755182X.2017.1419455

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Digital humanities and tourism history

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>5/01/2018
<mark>Journal</mark>Journal of Tourism History
Issue number2-3
Volume9
Number of pages24
Pages (from-to)246-269
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

This symposium considers how the digital humanities (DH), which relies on computer technology to interpret data and present conclusions, can enhance our understanding of tourism history. It begins with an introduction that defines DH, considers how DH can assist the way in which we think about tourism, and discusses the strengths and limitations of applications like text mining and digital mapping. This is followed by a review of the scholarship on digital mapping and the humanities which also highlights some of the important themes and projects that have sprung from this dynamic interdisciplinary dialogue. The latter half of the symposium is dedicated to two project reports. The first describes how the Grand Tour Project at Stanford University is utilizing a database of digital entries which combine digitised text and structured data to illuminate connections between eighteenth-century travellers. The second discusses how the Geospatial Innovation in the Digital Humanities project at Lancaster University is using geo-spatial technologies to examine the relationship between historically evolving ideas about tourist destinations in the Lake District and the contemporary management of such sites. The symposium concludes with some contemplation of the future developments in the realm of digital humanities and tourism history.

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Tourism History on 05/01/2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1755182X.2017.1419455