Narrative and tourist experience of visitors to Teotihuacan

Personal narratives have not been given much attention in tourism studies. Through ethnographic observation and semi-structured interviews with visitors, this document analyses their activities, behaviours and interactions, and the discourses and meanings that they construct around the experiences they have acquired during their stay in the Teotihuacan archaeological zone. The findings show that visitors' experiences are constituted through narratives involving tourism situations and the meanings of the journey in which they encounter The Other, of leisure, recreation and, in particular, of the visited place.