Progress in French Tourism Geographies

Inhabiting Touristic Worlds

AvMathis Stock

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Del i serien Geographies of Tourism and Global Change

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Beskrivning

This book provides an overview of the recent progress in Francophone tourism geography. Finally, it provides an overview of the urban dimensions of tourism, place-making in the form of heritage, oasis tourism, sports tourism, production of space in Mexican resorts.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-01-07
Mått:155 x 235 x 14 mm
Vikt:440 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Geographies of Tourism and Global Change
Antal sidor:244
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030521387

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Mathis Stock is professor for tourism geography at University of Lausanne, Switzerland, where he leads the Research Group "Cultures and natures of tourism". His work is about tourist practices in a context of widespread mobilities, cities as tourist places as well as resort development. His main research question asks about the differentiated ways people inhabit mobilities and places.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The third tourism revolution.- Chapter 3. Globalisation of tourism: a non-linear development.- Chapter 4. Heritage and Tourism: from tourism gaze to tourism engagement.- Chapter 5. Tourism as urban phenomenon and the crux of “urban tourism”.- Chapter 6. Rematerializing tourism studies: the production of space in Mexican Tourist Resorts.- Chapter 7. Rethinking resort development through the concept of “touristic capital” of place.- Chapter 8. Tourist territories.- Chapter 9. Between places, practices and actants. Reflexion about a systemic approach of tourism.- Chapter 10. Heritage and tourism, tourism and heritage: an inquiry of the “chicken and egg” paradox.- Chapter 11. Living treasures, common goods and tourism development of the Agdal of Yagour.- Chapter 12. The city and the spatial competences of the tourist.- Chapter 13. Are second home owners full-fledged inhabitants? The case of Charente-Maritime.- Chapter 14. Unplug and connect to nature.- Chapter 15. Travel inside a moving space: to be a Chinese tourist in China today.- Chapter 16. The screen and the activity: media practices and outdoor sport tourism.- Chapter 17. African tourism mobilities.- Chapter 18. Conclusion.