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Architecture and the French Novel Second Empire architecture and the great department stores are a powerful visitor attraction for Paris in the twenty-first century. Many of the buildings of this period are extravagant mixtures of architectural style using references to gothic but with new building technologies, for example the iron girder, which reflect both France's imperial status and its material gains.  The French empire included both Vietnam and Algeria during this period, indeed the 1885 Maupassant novel, Bel Ami begins with its main character, Duroy, returning from military service in Algeria , and later in the story, land speculation in Algeria contributes to his wealth. The novel appears in English as The History of a Scoundrel in 1903 and gives a description of the Folies Bergère , a visitor attraction which had only opened in May 1869.  At the time of writing a further film adaptation of Bel Ami has been released (2012) directed by Declan Donnellan, demonstr...

In our research on how to turn literary travel writing projects into research projects, Jasna and I have developed a process of journaling with dialogue at the centre. This dialogue might start with reading an academic article that proposes a new theory in tourism or it could be an interview with someone in the industry.  Capture the Catalyst As promptly as possible, this catalyst is captured in the online file-card index, and a section of affirmative journaling is written up while the idea is still stimulating and challenging. In our experiments I have made a page template for MS OneNote with named cells in a table of prompts to gather the journaling process, please see the picture of my Zettelkasten template below for MS OneNote: Next, of course, we need to test our processual methodology over and over again in professional projects for DMOs and with destination stakeholders to make it robust for the industry. We are planning to explore a few tourism towns, beginning with Zadar. ...