Travel and Representation

Reviews / Votes

"This is a well-written book that disentangles, through sound interdisciplinary scholarship, the multiple workings of travel representations, their effects on people, and their limits...[It] is definitely recommended reading for graduate students and scholars with an interest in how travel, including tourism, is represented and how both travel and its representations mutually influence each other." * JRAI (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute)



"This is a collection of beautifully written chapters coalescing around a set of mutually illuminating themes: the visual, the poetic, imagination, the post-representational, travel, and self/world making. Moving from film to the Internet, from photography to music, and from travel writing and poetry to television commercials, Travel and Representation puts this debate over representation into terms that are amenable to tourism studies and research." * Jennie Germann Molz, College of the Holy Cross



"This is an innovative collection of chapters that pushes the scope of research at the intersections between travel and representation in new directions by focusing on what representations 'do' in constructing the sensory and emotional experiences of travelers." * Duncan Light, Bournemouth University