Konstantinos Andriotis

Konstantinos Andriotis

Konstantinos Andriotis is a researcher and co-author of the 2015 Tourism Management study of souvenir values.

Who they are

Andriotis wrote the study with Pavlos Paraskevaidis. Exploratory interviews with 20 respondents in Veria, Greece, were read through use value, exchange value and sign value, with a proposed fourth, spiritual value, to identify what tourists expect souvenirs to do.

The article on souvenirs cites it as one account of the functions of the objects.

Key papers

Paraskevaidis, P. and Andriotis, K. (2015), Tourism Management 48.

Key ideas

Souvenirs can be read as commodities with several kinds of value.

Tourists expect souvenirs to serve a range of functions.

Sources

  1. Paraskevaidis, P. and Andriotis, K. (2015), Tourism Management 48, 1-10.