'Every Winter To Infinity': Seasonal Repeat Visitors’ Interactions With The Physical And Cultural Environments Of Western Australia’s Ningaloo Region

Abstract

Situated in cultural geography, this study analyses how repeat visitors to the Ningaloo region interact with its physical and cultural environments. The research provides qualitative analysis of how visitors’ relationships with the region are entwined with family, performance of community, effects on year round lives, and fear of marginalization through shifting management regimes. It expands tourism research spatially and temporally beyond destinations and trips, and contributes to understandings of visitors’ emotional attachments to holiday destinations.