Tourist Attractions and Chronotopes in Heritage Tourism

－Case Study of Blackpool Tram－

Abstract

This research focuses on heritage tourism in terms of the chronotopes. The chronotopes mean the matrices of time and space, connecting the actual world as source of representation to the world represented. It is said that our particular totally integrated sense of time and space shapes our sense of reality. Therefore, the chronotopes enable us to analyse an event that happens when a tourist visits tourist attractions with regard to heritage tourism because the elements of heritage tourism consist of time and space. As a case study, Blackpool in the UK provides us a quality example of relationship between heritage tourism and the chronotopes. It reveals that Blackpool incorporates past space into present one, creating the reality of heritage tourism for the future.