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Visitor interpretation is used by visitor attractions to tell a
story about a site’s significance and its context (physical,
natural, social, aesthetic or spiritual). The purpose of visitor
interpretation is informal education and first-hand
participatory learning, often about heritage or natural
environments.
1.1 Introduction
But interpretation is also used
to enhance knowledge of
authenticity, stimulate change
in attitudes and behavior and
explain ideologies. Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is
Interpretation is complemented usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. The
by visitor management tools visitor can always go home; The visitee is
such as information and already home, trapped like a rat in a
directional signage and trail drainpipe.
design. - Barbara Holland
Marygold Garlands in Market by Momito Panday Studio India
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