Hand-drawn Maps In our tourism research project on Brežice, Slovenia we reached the stage of hand-drawing route maps on which to create a hexis for later literary travel writing by the end of March 2023. We were still in the first phase of the process, which in our tourism textbook for travel writers and place-branding we call 'Step 1. Deep-mapping', Table 5.7 page 96. The processual approach, where we work via dialogue journaling, began to yield up two emerging findings. One, which I will expand fully here, is the unknown town syndrome, and the other is linked to Paul Rabinow's (2007) Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco . It is the point where Rabinow develops Paul Ricœur's idea that meaning is discovered in what follows an event. Even though I’ve been thinking about Brežice for a long time now, it is still unknown to me, and to the readers of this blog. How do the tourist office there tell English-speaking people from Britain or the US that their town of just 6,800
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