ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book outlines some of the implications for tourism studies. Cities are a type of great idea, though it is because they are sites of commerce and art, faith and many other things as well. Peirce, in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy explained his view of cognition: We have no power of Introspection, but all knowledge of the internal world is derived by hypothetical reasoning from our knowledge of external facts, no power of Intuition, but every cognition is determined by previous cognitions, have no power of thinking without signs and no conception of the absolutely incognizable. While Peirce's theory is a general theory of understanding, it is an especially suitable heuristic tool for explaining meaning making in landscape, and the tourists who are like an army of semioticians, to use Culler's term, are the ideal subjects through which to see this in action.
