Trans-rational and non-conscious aspects in visual representations of the experience of winter adventure tourism

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://ejtr.vumk.eu/index.php/about/article/view/3767/693" target="_blank" >https://ejtr.vumk.eu/index.php/about/article/view/3767/693</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.54055/ejtr.v40i.3767" target="_blank" >10.54055/ejtr.v40i.3767</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Trans-rational and non-conscious aspects in visual representations of the experience of winter adventure tourism

Original language description

Adventure tourism research has been a rapidly growing field of tourism studies in recent years. Winter adventure tourism has received less attention in research, with even less focus on its activities such as snowshoeing and winter camping. The experience of being in this environment, from the perspective of a phenomenological approach, goes beyond the scope of rational description and enters the realm of metaphors and symbols. Therefore, in this study, we rely on the possibilities of visual methodology, specifically the drawings of participants in a two-week snowshoe trek in the mountain environment of Siberia. Supported by the concept of metaphorical truthfulness, we present seven selected drawings with the authors’ descriptions of the images and supplement the interpretations with the symbolic meanings of the main motifs depicted. The results thus provide suggestions for the methodological enrichment of tourism research and its thematic motifs (people, mountains, fire, road, trees, etc.) with their symbolic, spiritual, and mythological dimensions (vertical, centre, purification, growth, overcoming difficulties, perfection, love, etc.).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50901 - Other social sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Journal of Tourism Research

ISSN

1994-7658

e-ISSN

1314-0817

Volume of the periodical

40

Issue of the periodical within the volume

June

Country of publishing house

BG - BULGARIA

Number of pages

30

Pages from-to

1-30

UT code for WoS article

001512562000009

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105008240822