Exploring the Use and Impact of Travel Guidebooks

AvVictoria Peel,Anders Sørensen

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of travel guidebooks and their conceptualisation, use and impact. Guidebooks have been key tourism paraphernalia for almost two centuries and although researched in some areas, academic knowledge on guidebooks in tourism has not been expansively communicated. The uncritical, unreflective and largely pejorative approach to guidebooks in the public sphere, and to some degree also present in academia, is reassessed in this book. This challenges the current limited tourism research approaches to the topic, including the routinely held assumption that the internet has all but destroyed the printed guidebook. This book will be a useful resource for postgraduate students and researchers in tourism and tourism communications and consumption.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-02-04
Mått:148 x 210 x 14 mm
Vikt:349 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Tourism and Cultural Change
Antal sidor:250
Förlag:Channel View Publications Ltd
ISBN:9781845415624

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Servicesektorn inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Victoria Peel is a senior lecturer in cultural tourism management in the Graduate Tourism program hosted by the National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University, Australia. Her research focuses on cultural tourism and the backpacker and student tourism markets. Anders Sørensen is owner and manager of Tourismlab.dk, which provides tourism and hospitality research and consultancy and produces knowledge of tourism and tourists. His research interests include backpacker tourism, travel guidebooks and tourism in peripheral areas.

Recensioner i media

This book represents an ambitious exploration of one of the most pervasive and long standing requisites of tourism: the guidebook. It provides a comprehensive and critical review of contemporary research approaches addressing the entanglement of guidebooks with tourist experiences since the early days of mass tourism to digitalized travel. By combining conceptual insights with contextualized empirical enquiries, Peel and Sørensen offer a cutting-edge resource for advanced studies on tourism.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. Introduction: Travel Guidebooks and Tourism Discourse Chapter 2. Conceptualising Travel Guidebooks Chapter 3. Guidebook HistoriesChapter 4. Travel Guidebooks as Text Chapter 5. According to the Guidebook: Exploring Lonely Planet’s Australia Chapter 6. ‘Why I Love/Hate My Guidebook’: Perspectives from the Blogosphere Chapter 7. Slaves to the Guidebook? Exploring Guidebook Usage Chapter 8. Towards a Typology of Guidebook Users Chapter 9. Permission to Coast? Travel Guidebooks and Tourism Businesses Chapter 10. ‘Countdown to Doomsday’? Guidebook Agency in Destination Development Chapter 11. Transformations in the Age of E-tourism: The End of the Guidebook as We Know It? Chapter 12. The Stigma of Guidebooks: Causes and QuestionsReferences