Travellers to Wales

该项目将建立在2013年至2017年开展的欧洲游客到威尔士项目1750-2010的基础上，该项目是班戈大学、斯旺西大学和威尔士大学高级威尔士和凯尔特研究中心的现代语言研究人员与威尔士国家图书馆和威尔士博物馆部门的合作伙伴之间的合作。总的来说，最初的项目旨在探索近三个世纪以来来到威尔士的欧洲旅行者在旅行写作中的反应。这项研究揭示了旅行者对威尔士的反应，威尔士是一个边缘国家，有时是意想不到的国家，其文化在欧洲背景下往往鲜为人知。该项目的基础是建立了一个可搜索的旅行账户数据库(etw.bangor.ac.uk/Account-of-Travel)，该数据库现已包含400多个条目。该后续项目旨在利用该数据库中的材料，与威尔士古代和历史遗迹皇家委员会合作，访问威尔士，帮助向国内和国际受众更广泛地宣传威尔士及其历史、文化遗产和景观，方法是开发一个便于移动设备的互动网站，使用户(主要但不限于讲德语和法语的欧洲人)能够创建穿越威尔士的主题旅游路线，并访问特定遗址的历史材料，从旅行者的角度随着时间的推移(特别是十八世纪和十九世纪)解释各个地点。互动网站将使这些新恢复的历史材料以一种对威尔士的旅游活动产生积极影响的方式向新的普通观众提供，从而为威尔士经济最重要的要素之一做出贡献，并瞄准访问威尔士确定的关键市场之一。这一新网站的开发将利用十八世纪和十九世纪以前未知或被遗忘的材料的出乎意料的质量和数量，这些材料是在为欧洲旅行者到威尔士项目进行的主要研究中发现的，现在出现在数据库中。正在讨论的材料涵盖了威尔士风景、文化和遗产发生巨大变化的时期，现代游客将能够通过他们旅行的前辈的眼睛‘体验’这些变化，从而为来自欧洲的新一代游客打开了威尔士的独特视野，也为来自英国和世界其他地区的游客随着时间的推移对威尔士的看法提供了新的了解。这将通过整理现有的数字材料和利用皇家委员会小组的专业知识开发新的数字资源来实现，这些资源包括历史视觉材料、数字可视化和重建、千兆像素全景摄影和虚拟现实体验。还将提供可下载的材料。该网站将由班戈大学主办，并通过Access Wales运营的各种平台在全球推广。

This project will build on the work undertaken from 2013 to 2017 on the European Travellers to Wales 1750-2010 project, a collaboration between researchers in Modern Langages based at Bangor University, Swansea University and the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies and their partners at the National Library of Wales and the within the museum sector in Wales. Broadly speaking, the original project set out to explore the responses in travel writing of European travellers coming to Wales over a period of nearly three centuries. The research uncovered travellers' responses to Wales as a peripheral, at times unexpected nation with a culture often little known in the European context. Underpinning the project was the creation of a searchable open access database of accounts of travel (etw.bangor.ac.uk/accounts-of-travel) which now contains over 400 entries. This follow-on project aims to exploit the material held in this database by working with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Mouments of Wales and Visit Wales to help to promote Wales, its history, cultural heritage and landscape more widely to national and international audiences by developing an interactive mobile-friendly website that allows users (primarily but not exclusively from German and French-speaking Europe) to create themed travel routes through Wales and to access historical, site-specific material that interprets individual locations from the perspective of travellers through time (in particular the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries). The interactive website will make this newly recovered historical material available to new, general audiences in a way which will have a positive impact on the tourist activity in Wales, in so doing contributing to one of the most important elements of the Welsh economy and targeting one of the key markets identified by Visit Wales. The development of this new website will exploit the unexpected quality and quantity of previously unknown or forgotten material dating to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which has been uncovered during the main research undertaken for the European Travellers to Wales project and which is now surfaced in the database. The material in question covers a period of great change in the landscape, culture and heritage of Wales and modern-day visitors will be able to 'experience' those changes through the eyes of their travelling predecessors, thus opening up a unique view of Wales to a new generation of travellers from Europe, but also casting a new light on the perception of Wales over time for visitors from the United Kingdom and other parts of the world. This will be made possible through the collation of exisiting digital materials and the development, using the expertise of the Royal Commission team, of new digital resources consisting of historical visual material, digital visualisation and reconstructions, panotours of gigapixel photography and Virtual Reality experiences. Downloadable materials will also be made available. The website will be hosted by Bangor University and promoted globally via the various platforms operated by Visit Wales.