Picturing the Landscape: Die Grune Insel: Tourist Images of Ireland

In: European journal of communication, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 41-62

Abstract

In this paper we examine how our images of the landscape are framed in and through the media practices involved in tourist promotion. Through a case study of the selling of Ireland as a holiday destination for the German tourist market, we explore the processes of cultural translation and intertextuality which link traditions of landscape painting, photoart and the contemporary tourist brochure. We argue that communication analysis can play a key role in the critical study of tourism.