Locals\u27 and tourists\u27 sense of place: A case study of a Swiss alpine village

The development of Swiss Alpine landscapes must comply with the needs of different interest groups. It is assumed that the way people relate to places, and particularly the sense of place they have, is a basis for their needs and aims regarding future landscape development. Conflicts among aims can be better understood if the underlying place relations are known. Therefore, the authors inductively examined differences between locals' and tourists' sense of place by means of a qualitative interview study in Alvaneu, a Swiss Alpine village. In social science theory, “sense of..