Tourism and Visual Culture, Volume 1
Theories and Concepts
Published on 30. April 2010
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-1-84593-609-9 (ISBN)
Description
Tourism is an essentially visual experience: we leave our homes so as to travel to see places, thus adding to our personal knowledge about, and experience of, the world. The study of tourism as a complex social phenomenon, beyond simply business, is increasing in importance, and by providing an examination of perceptions of culture and society in tourism destinations through the tourist's eyes, this book discusses how destinations were, and are, created and perceived through the 'lens' of the tourist's gaze.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wallingford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 173 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
717 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84593-609-9 (9781845936099)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Editor
DirectorInstitute for Tourism Research (INTOUR), UK
University of Brighton, UK
University of Brighton
Contributions
University of Urbino "Carlo Bo", Italy
King's College, London
Universita degli Studi di Urbino "Carlo Bo"
Naresuan University, Thailand
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril, Portugal
Institute for Tourism Studies, China
Content
1: The Changing Tourist Gaze in India's Hill Stations: Vignettes from the Early 19th Century to the Present Kathleen Baker 2: 'Memory Tourism' and Commodifi cation of Nostalgia Roberta Bartoletti 3: Edward Hopper: Glancing at Gaze with a Wink at Tourism Teresa Costa 4: A 'Vice Among Tourists'? Trans-national Narratives of the Irish Landscape, 1886-1914 K.J. James 5: Decolonizing the Gaze: at Uluru (Ayers Rock) Jana-Axinja Paschen 6: Tracking the (Tourists') Gaze: Using Technology in Visual Analysis of Identificational Strategies Sergej Stoetzer 7: Gazing at the Gallant Gurkha: Glimpsing Nepalese Society Lisa Power and Clive Baker 8: In the Eye of the Beholder? Tourism and the Activist Academic Freya Higgins-Desbiolles 9: Gazes on Levanto: a Case Study on How Local Identity Could Become Part of the Touristic Supply Stefania Antonioni, Laura Gemini and Lella Mazzoli 10: Image, Construction and Representation in Tourism Promotion and Heritage Management Elisabeth Dumont, Mikel Asensio and Manuel Mortari 11: Tourist Immersion or Tourist Gaze: the Backpacker Experience Ketwadee Buddhabhumbhitak 12: Receiving and Shaping the Tourist Appraising Gaze: the Lived Experience of Reception Work in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry Gayathri (Gee) Wijesinghe and Peter Willis 13: Seeing the Sites: Tourism as Perceptual Experience James Moir 14: Goods of Desire: Visual and Other Aspects of Western Exoticism in Postcolonial Hong Kong Hilary du Cros 15: Mauritanian Guestbook: Shaping Culture while Displaying it Maria Cardeira da Silva 16: Transforming Taste(s) into Sights: Gazing and Grazing with Television's Culinary Tourists David Dunn 17: World in One City: Surrealist Geography and Time and Space Compression in Alex Cox's Liverpool Les Roberts