Reinventing "retrotels": using engaged scholarship to market nostalgia tourism in rural New Hampshire

Ben Amsden; Thad Guldbrandsen; Mark Okrant

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Reinventing "retrotels": using engaged scholarship to market nostalgia tourism in rural New Hampshire

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Authors:

Ben Amsden, Thad Guldbrandsen, Mark Okrant

Year:

2012

Type:

Other

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Fisher, Cherie LeBlanc; Watts, Clifton E., Jr., eds. Proceedings of the 2010 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-94. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 257-261.

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Abstract

Nostalgia tourism is an emerging phenomenon in which visitors actively seek to relive their experiences and/or perceptions of yesteryear. How can modern-day tourism development best leverage this desire to reexperience the past? The Institute for New Hampshire Studies and the Center for Rural Partnerships at Plymouth State University sought to answer this question by creating an engaged scholarship initiative of research and application in the area of tourism marketing.

Parent Publication

Proceedings of the 2010 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium

Citation

Amsden, Ben; Guldbrandsen, Thad; Okrant, Mark. 2012. Reinventing "retrotels": using engaged scholarship to market nostalgia tourism in rural New Hampshire. In: Fisher, Cherie LeBlanc; Watts, Clifton E., Jr., eds. Proceedings of the 2010 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-94. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 257-261.