It's also a symbol of proprietorial greed, its £7.80 entrance fee allowing passage through a dank tunnel and a walk around, rather than among, the stones; according to a random sample of visitor reactions, Stonehenge is "just a pile of rocks", "smaller than I thought it would be" and a "rip-off".
Using a case study of transportation management options and visitor responses in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, this paper examines visitor reactions to a range of transportation strategies designed to shift skiers from private to public modes of transport.
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"When I saw the visitors' reaction, I was clear that this was it," Sehgal says.
It takes very little to whip fans into a frenzy of anger and the visitors' reaction was predictable.
"It was as if their hearts became weighed down with lead," said an official account of the visitors' reaction.
From Saturday, too, films of visitors' reactions will also be online.
Visitors' reactions are first disbelief, and then anger, when they understand where Park51 is actually located and that they have been so deliberately misled.
I stood and watched visitors' reactions for a while: a first glimpse would stop them in their tracks, and then confusion would take hold, followed by intense discussion.
And last year the church did a full-scale test using two other works by Mr. Viola to gauge visitors' reactions, try out the lighting and better understand the technical issues.
