by Niko Lipsanen (2001) Chapters 2 to 6 Chapters 7 to 10
Chapters 14 and 15 Sights are places where tourists go. They are
the places that are described in travel brochures and
guidebooks. Tourists go there because guidebooks write about
them, and guidebooks write about them because tourists go there.
In this study, eleven guidebooks are analysed to know the sights
where tourists should go in Roseau. 32 visitors are surveyed by
e-mail to discover which sights they actually visited (see
Appendix 2 for survey form and Appendix 3 for information about
the answerers). The analysed texts include two books on Dominica
(Honychurch 1991; Philpott 1996), Dominica sections of four
guidebooks covering several Caribbean islands (Millman 1998;
Cameron & Box 1993; Bendure & Friary 1994; Doyle 1995), three
annual travel magazines about Dominica (Discover 1997;
Destination 1999; Dominique s.a.) and two internet sites about
Roseau (Dominica 1998; Gründel 1998; detailed information about
guidebooks in Appendix 4). All the sight