D J Walmsley

TL;DR: In this article, personal construct theory was used to study the appraisive images held by tourists visiting the North Coast of New South Wales, and the evaluative constructs identified may provide a general basis for understanding tourist perceptions.

TL;DR: For instance, the authors found that tourists developed cognitive images of resort areas quickly and that cognitive maps are influenced by experience, both in the immediate sense of the length of time spent in the area and in the more general sense of lifestyle to which the tourist is accustomed.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study of tourist impressions of distance on the east coast of Australia shows that such distance is overestimated relative to reality and also suggests that the distance cognition of tourists differs from that of permanent residents and the process of distance cognition is influenced by a range of factors.

TL;DR: In this paper, first-year geography students at three Australian universities drew sketch maps of the world and found that the level of inclusion of individual countries in the sketch maps was influenced greatly by the area and population of the countries in question but secondary factors such as proximity to Australia, Commonwealth nation status, historical/cultural factors and level of economic development.