We can see that 10 of the 18 respondents who had previously visited Tintagel only stayed between 0-3hrs on their present visit, while those who were visiting for the first time generally stayed for longer. One further issue is pertinent in establishing Tintagel s status as a marker. Those who were making a return visit to Tintagel were asked to recall when they had previously visited. These responses have been crosstabulated with the duration of their present visit to see whether this will influence the amount of time they spend here. There are some interesting patterns of behaviour emerging here.
Previous visit decreases proportionally with time spent.
Those respondents who had most recently visited Tintagel were prone to make a return visit but generally stayed for a short length of time. It is rather difficult to account for these conflicting patterns of behaviour at this stage. A possible explanation is that repeat visitors may then be attracted to selected sights based on previous experience.