Inside the Triangle : Images of a Capital Bruce Hayllar

INTRODUCTION The focus of this chapter is on understanding the tourist experience of Canberra, Australia’s capital city, particularly within its main parliamentary precinct. This precinct possesses both political and touristic significance, as it encompasses a set of major national institutions amongst which are eight of the city’s ten most visited sites. The tourist experience is theorised through a phenomenological approach that examined 598 tourist images taken within the precinct, and the response of four focus groups to those images.