Velvet Nelson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3922695 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Velvet Nelson |
| PRENOMES | Velvet |
| SOBRENOME | Nelson |
| ASSINATURA | NELSON V |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Sam Houston State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4588-516X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Top-down and bottom-up approaches to heritage on two Texas trails
Tourist trails, and heritage trails specifically, are an increasingly common feature within the tourism landscape. Stakeholders develop and promote trails for a variety of political, cultural, and economic reasons. Top-down approaches involve authoritative identification of sites that are often grand in nature and support official narratives. In bottom-up approaches, communities are involved in development of their own heritage that may be modest…
Elevating Teacher-Faculty Professional Development to Move Secondary Geography Education Forward
High school geography in the U.S. continues to face many challenges. Recent research argues for increased faculty engagement with teachers and students to broaden participation and promote career opportunities. Here, we sought to better understand teachers’ challenges in ninth-grade geography classes in Southeast Texas, including addressing students’ negative perceptions of geography from a baseline survey. To address student perceptions, teacher…
Tour Guide Perspectives on Representations of Slavery at a Heritage Museum
In recent years, scholars have called for greater recognition and representation of the role of slavery and the contributions of the enslaved at a multitude of heritage sites in, and outside, of the US. The framework of difficult heritage, as grounded in difficult knowledge, draws attention to the problems associated with the processes of heritage-making, including the challenges faced by those tasked with representing traumatic pasts as well as …
Consuming local
As the craft beer industry has experienced significant growth around the world and particularly in the U.S., research into various aspects of the topic has grown as well. Significant attention has been given to the relationship between craft beer and neolocalism, resulting in three key themes: neolocalism as a driver of demand for the craft beer product, the use of place-based themes by craft brewers to engender neolocalism, and neolocalism as a …
Liminality and difficult heritage in tourism
Difficult heritage, rooted in difficult knowledge, is not simply difficult because of traumatic content but also because of the responses it can provoke. These responses can include confusion, anxiety, and empathy for the fear and suffering of others. As such, difficult heritage sites can be problematic in tourism, which is typically characterized by expectations of fun and relaxation. Scholars recognize that the tourist experience is liminal in …
Geography and tourism in undergraduate education
Object narratives and the enslaved at Sam Houston memorial museum
Objects offer an opportunity to narrate the past. Tourism scholarship has found that plantation museums in the American South give considerable attention to objects associated with the planter class to engage visitors with stories about them and their lifestyle. At the same time, museum stakeholders have cited a lack of objects associated with the enslaved as a barrier to greater representations of slavery. However, the concept of an interface ob…
Peru's image as a culinary destination
Destination image is the cumulative product of individuals processing information about a destination over time. This image comes from different sources, like media articles intended to inform a general audience and promotional materials intended to persuade potential tourists to visit. Various aspects of a destination can provide the focal point for its image, including its unique foods. With the growing interest in food in the media and in tour…
Place reputation
Place reputation refers to the composite of ideas held by external audiences that play an important role in the development and success of that place. A negative place reputation can be very slow and difficult to change, but place reputation management seeks to adjust it so that it is closer to how stakeholders would like the place to be perceived. Research suggests that this should reflect the quality of place (i.e. what is there, who is there, …
Representations of a Destination Brand in Online Tourism Information Sources
In the highly competitive global tourism industry, place branding has become a widely used tool in the promotion of tourism destinations. The creation and communication of a unique, positive, and recognizable identity is considered key for destinations to remain competitive and vital for relatively unknown destinations to raise awareness among international audiences. However, the brand-building process has become more challenging than ever, as d…
Tropical Whites
Catherine Cocks. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. ix and 255 pp., illustrations, photos, notes, and index. $59.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8122-4499-1); $59.95 electronic (ISBN 978-0
The construction of Slovenia as a European tourism destination in guidebooks
The Landscape Reputation
Since the time of the European explorers who traversed the Caribbean Sea in the fifteenth century, visitors' written descriptions and illustrations of the islands were extraordinarily influential in forming the region's reputation. The principal component of these descriptions and illustrations, and the core of this reputation, was the tropical island landscape and the first impressions formed from onboard a ship as islands were approached from t…
Dominica's lime industry
This article examines the lime industry on the island of Dominica and the role it, as the dominant economic activity in the early twentieth century, played in the negotiation of identity. Economic narratives are used to explore this negotiation as the industry, and the island's prosperity, rose and fell. Examining the cycle of narratives provides insight into the creation of unity among agricultural producers that encouraged development of the li…
The sensibility of aesthetic landscape concepts in the case of British West Indies travel narratives, 1815–1914
In the tradition of landscape traced back to the emergence of landscape painting, the techniques of art provided the basis for selecting a vantage point or prospect, from which to view the landscape, and for framing the scene. Meanwhile, the development of aesthetic concepts such as the sublime, beautiful, picturesque, and romantic provided the means of evaluating landscape scenery. These concepts provided a highly structured way of seeing intend…
Traces of the Past
Tourism representations can be highly influential and extremely pervasive. This paper investigates the origins of the vivid imagery common in today's Caribbean tourism representations. The 99-year period from 1815 to 1914 was a key era in the development of tourism for the British West Indies with increased geopolitical stability, improved transportation, and increased demand for new tourism experiences. With the growing popularity of travel, as …
Representation and images of people, place and nature in grenada's tourism
The purpose of this paper is to examine the visual images occurring in Grenada's place promotion materials. Tourism has become Grenada's principal source of foreign exchange and employment generation. With the increasing popularity of eco‐ and nature‐tourism, the island has looked to this form of specialty tourism as a way to diversify its tourism product. Tourism is a uniquely visual industry; thus semiotics, the study of signs, was chosen for t…
Representation and images of people, place and nature in grenada's tourism
The purpose of this paper is to examine the visual images occurring in Grenada's place promotion materials. Tourism has become Grenada's principal source of foreign exchange and employment generation. With the increasing popularity of eco‐ and nature‐tourism, the island has looked to this form of specialty tourism as a way to diversify its tourism product. Tourism is a uniquely visual industry; thus semiotics, the study of signs, was chosen for t…
Place reputation
Place reputation refers to the composite of ideas held by external audiences that play an important role in the development and success of that place. A negative place reputation can be very slow and difficult to change, but place reputation management seeks to adjust it so that it is closer to how stakeholders would like the place to be perceived. Research suggests that this should reflect the quality of place (i.e. what is there, who is there, …
Liminality and difficult heritage in tourism
Difficult heritage, rooted in difficult knowledge, is not simply difficult because of traumatic content but also because of the responses it can provoke. These responses can include confusion, anxiety, and empathy for the fear and suffering of others. As such, difficult heritage sites can be problematic in tourism, which is typically characterized by expectations of fun and relaxation. Scholars recognize that the tourist experience is liminal in …
Peru's image as a culinary destination
Destination image is the cumulative product of individuals processing information about a destination over time. This image comes from different sources, like media articles intended to inform a general audience and promotional materials intended to persuade potential tourists to visit. Various aspects of a destination can provide the focal point for its image, including its unique foods. With the growing interest in food in the media and in tour…
The construction of Slovenia as a European tourism destination in guidebooks
Consuming local
As the craft beer industry has experienced significant growth around the world and particularly in the U.S., research into various aspects of the topic has grown as well. Significant attention has been given to the relationship between craft beer and neolocalism, resulting in three key themes: neolocalism as a driver of demand for the craft beer product, the use of place-based themes by craft brewers to engender neolocalism, and neolocalism as a …
Traces of the Past
Tourism representations can be highly influential and extremely pervasive. This paper investigates the origins of the vivid imagery common in today's Caribbean tourism representations. The 99-year period from 1815 to 1914 was a key era in the development of tourism for the British West Indies with increased geopolitical stability, improved transportation, and increased demand for new tourism experiences. With the growing popularity of travel, as …
The sensibility of aesthetic landscape concepts in the case of British West Indies travel narratives, 1815–1914
In the tradition of landscape traced back to the emergence of landscape painting, the techniques of art provided the basis for selecting a vantage point or prospect, from which to view the landscape, and for framing the scene. Meanwhile, the development of aesthetic concepts such as the sublime, beautiful, picturesque, and romantic provided the means of evaluating landscape scenery. These concepts provided a highly structured way of seeing intend…
Representation and images of people, place and nature in grenada's tourism
The purpose of this paper is to examine the visual images occurring in Grenada's place promotion materials. Tourism has become Grenada's principal source of foreign exchange and employment generation. With the increasing popularity of eco‐ and nature‐tourism, the island has looked to this form of specialty tourism as a way to diversify its tourism product. Tourism is a uniquely visual industry; thus semiotics, the study of signs, was chosen for t…
Traces of the Past
Tourism representations can be highly influential and extremely pervasive. This paper investigates the origins of the vivid imagery common in today's Caribbean tourism representations. The 99-year period from 1815 to 1914 was a key era in the development of tourism for the British West Indies with increased geopolitical stability, improved transportation, and increased demand for new tourism experiences. With the growing popularity of travel, as …
The sensibility of aesthetic landscape concepts in the case of British West Indies travel narratives, 1815–1914
In the tradition of landscape traced back to the emergence of landscape painting, the techniques of art provided the basis for selecting a vantage point or prospect, from which to view the landscape, and for framing the scene. Meanwhile, the development of aesthetic concepts such as the sublime, beautiful, picturesque, and romantic provided the means of evaluating landscape scenery. These concepts provided a highly structured way of seeing intend…
Dominica's lime industry
This article examines the lime industry on the island of Dominica and the role it, as the dominant economic activity in the early twentieth century, played in the negotiation of identity. Economic narratives are used to explore this negotiation as the industry, and the island's prosperity, rose and fell. Examining the cycle of narratives provides insight into the creation of unity among agricultural producers that encouraged development of the li…
The Landscape Reputation
Since the time of the European explorers who traversed the Caribbean Sea in the fifteenth century, visitors' written descriptions and illustrations of the islands were extraordinarily influential in forming the region's reputation. The principal component of these descriptions and illustrations, and the core of this reputation, was the tropical island landscape and the first impressions formed from onboard a ship as islands were approached from t…
The construction of Slovenia as a European tourism destination in guidebooks
Representations of a Destination Brand in Online Tourism Information Sources
In the highly competitive global tourism industry, place branding has become a widely used tool in the promotion of tourism destinations. The creation and communication of a unique, positive, and recognizable identity is considered key for destinations to remain competitive and vital for relatively unknown destinations to raise awareness among international audiences. However, the brand-building process has become more challenging than ever, as d…
Tropical Whites
Catherine Cocks. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. ix and 255 pp., illustrations, photos, notes, and index. $59.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8122-4499-1); $59.95 electronic (ISBN 978-0
Place reputation
Place reputation refers to the composite of ideas held by external audiences that play an important role in the development and success of that place. A negative place reputation can be very slow and difficult to change, but place reputation management seeks to adjust it so that it is closer to how stakeholders would like the place to be perceived. Research suggests that this should reflect the quality of place (i.e. what is there, who is there, …
Peru's image as a culinary destination
Destination image is the cumulative product of individuals processing information about a destination over time. This image comes from different sources, like media articles intended to inform a general audience and promotional materials intended to persuade potential tourists to visit. Various aspects of a destination can provide the focal point for its image, including its unique foods. With the growing interest in food in the media and in tour…
Object narratives and the enslaved at Sam Houston memorial museum
Objects offer an opportunity to narrate the past. Tourism scholarship has found that plantation museums in the American South give considerable attention to objects associated with the planter class to engage visitors with stories about them and their lifestyle. At the same time, museum stakeholders have cited a lack of objects associated with the enslaved as a barrier to greater representations of slavery. However, the concept of an interface ob…
Geography and tourism in undergraduate education
Tour Guide Perspectives on Representations of Slavery at a Heritage Museum
In recent years, scholars have called for greater recognition and representation of the role of slavery and the contributions of the enslaved at a multitude of heritage sites in, and outside, of the US. The framework of difficult heritage, as grounded in difficult knowledge, draws attention to the problems associated with the processes of heritage-making, including the challenges faced by those tasked with representing traumatic pasts as well as …
Consuming local
As the craft beer industry has experienced significant growth around the world and particularly in the U.S., research into various aspects of the topic has grown as well. Significant attention has been given to the relationship between craft beer and neolocalism, resulting in three key themes: neolocalism as a driver of demand for the craft beer product, the use of place-based themes by craft brewers to engender neolocalism, and neolocalism as a …
Liminality and difficult heritage in tourism
Difficult heritage, rooted in difficult knowledge, is not simply difficult because of traumatic content but also because of the responses it can provoke. These responses can include confusion, anxiety, and empathy for the fear and suffering of others. As such, difficult heritage sites can be problematic in tourism, which is typically characterized by expectations of fun and relaxation. Scholars recognize that the tourist experience is liminal in …
Elevating Teacher-Faculty Professional Development to Move Secondary Geography Education Forward
High school geography in the U.S. continues to face many challenges. Recent research argues for increased faculty engagement with teachers and students to broaden participation and promote career opportunities. Here, we sought to better understand teachers’ challenges in ninth-grade geography classes in Southeast Texas, including addressing students’ negative perceptions of geography from a baseline survey. To address student perceptions, teacher…
Top-down and bottom-up approaches to heritage on two Texas trails
Tourist trails, and heritage trails specifically, are an increasingly common feature within the tourism landscape. Stakeholders develop and promote trails for a variety of political, cultural, and economic reasons. Top-down approaches involve authoritative identification of sites that are often grand in nature and support official narratives. In bottom-up approaches, communities are involved in development of their own heritage that may be modest…
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