Building a facade for Finland: Helsinki in tourism imagery.(Essay): An article from: The Geographical Review
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Author(s)Salla Jokela
PublisherAmerican Geographical Society
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From the author: Tourist destination promoters compose visual images and arrange them in brochures in order to communicate a coherent and attractive story. In a changing socioeconomic and political context, the city officials of Helsinki recognized a need for systematic promotion in the 1950s. In this article I examine 127 images published in ten tourism brochures produced by the Excursion Section of the Sport and Excursion Office of Helsinki between 1954 and 1963. The data-driven, content-analytical study shows how the images served a political identity project aimed at creating a sense of national solidarity among the Finns and to show international audiences that Finland is a modern nation. As a means of gaining acceptance in the West, support of citizenship education included emphasis on national symbols and signs of well-being and visualization of urban tourism. Keywords: Finland, nation building, tourism brochures, visual representations.
Citation Details
Title: Building a facade for Finland: Helsinki in tourism imagery.(Essay)
Author: Salla Jokela
Publication:The Geographical Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2011
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: 101 Issue: 1 Page: 53(18)
Article Type: Essay
Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
From the author: Tourist destination promoters compose visual images and arrange them in brochures in order to communicate a coherent and attractive story. In a changing socioeconomic and political context, the city officials of Helsinki recognized a need for systematic promotion in the 1950s. In this article I examine 127 images published in ten tourism brochures produced by the Excursion Section of the Sport and Excursion Office of Helsinki between 1954 and 1963. The data-driven, content-analytical study shows how the images served a political identity project aimed at creating a sense of national solidarity among the Finns and to show international audiences that Finland is a modern nation. As a means of gaining acceptance in the West, support of citizenship education included emphasis on national symbols and signs of well-being and visualization of urban tourism. Keywords: Finland, nation building, tourism brochures, visual representations.
Citation Details
Title: Building a facade for Finland: Helsinki in tourism imagery.(Essay)
Author: Salla Jokela
Publication:The Geographical Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2011
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: 101 Issue: 1 Page: 53(18)
Article Type: Essay
Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
