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Sex, Tourism and the Postcolonial Encounter
Landscapes of Longing in Egypt
Häftad, 2016
915 kr
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Illustrated by revealing interviews with women and men in the tourist resorts in the Sinai, Egypt, this book is ostensibly about western women who sleep with 'native' men while on holiday. Broadening the scope of issues involved, it examines the link between these holiday romances and a much wider …
Tourism Destination Development
Turns and Tactics
Av Arvid Viken, Brynhild Granås
Häftad, 2016
856 kr
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Although blurred and heavily contested, the concept of ’tourist destination’ still deserves careful attention. Despite its unstable characteristics, ’destination’ is a central and meaningful term in play among all parties in the field of tourism, including tourists, tourism operators, and …
Dark Tourism
Practice and interpretation
Av Glenn Hooper, John J. Lennon
Häftad, 2019
754 kr
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Dark Tourism, as well as other terms such as Thanatourism and Grief Tourism, has been much discussed in the past two decades. This volume provides a comprehensive exploration of the subject from the point of view of both practice - how Dark Tourism is performed, what practical and physical …
Performing Cultural Tourism
Communities, Tourists and Creative Practices
Av Susan Carson, Mark Pennings
Häftad, 2019
738 kr
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While experiential staging is well documented in tourism studies, not enough has been written about the diverse types of experiences and expectations that visitors bring to the tourist space and how communities respond to, or indeed challenge, these expectations. This book brings together new ideas …
Advances in Social Media for Travel, Tourism and Hospitality
New Perspectives, Practice and Cases
Av Marianna Sigala, Ulrike Gretzel
Häftad, 2019
716 kr
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This book brings together cutting edge research and applications of social media and related technologies, their uses by consumers and businesses in travel, tourism and hospitality.The first section addresses topical issues related to how social media influence the operations and strategies of …
Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America
Av Cathy Rex, Shevaun E. Watson
Inbunden, 2021
2600 kr
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This book addresses the interconnected issues of public memory, race, and heritage tourism, exploring the ways in which historical tourism shapes collective understandings of America’s earliest engagements with race.It includes contributions from a diverse group of humanities scholars, including …
Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America
Av Cathy Rex, Shevaun E. Watson
Häftad, 2024
716 kr
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This book addresses the interconnected issues of public memory, race, and heritage tourism, exploring the ways in which historical tourism shapes collective understandings of America’s earliest engagements with race.It includes contributions from a diverse group of humanities scholars, including …
Emerging Transformations in Tourism and Hospitality
Av Anna Farmaki, Nikolaos Pappas
Inbunden, 2021
2600 kr
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This significant and timely book critically discusses the effects of emerging trends and shifting dynamics on the tourism and hospitality industry at local, regional, national, and international levels in a holistic manner. This book offers a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary approach and …
Emerging Transformations in Tourism and Hospitality
Av Anna Farmaki, Nikolaos Pappas
Häftad, 2024
716 kr
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This significant and timely book critically discusses the effects of emerging trends and shifting dynamics on the tourism and hospitality industry at local, regional, national, and international levels in a holistic manner. This book offers a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary approach and …
Tourism, Travel, and Blogging
A discursive analysis of online travel narratives
Häftad, 2020
799 kr
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Travel often inspires the creation of narratives about journeys and destinations, more so with the increasing availability of online platforms, applications for smartphones and tablets, and various other social media technologies. This book examines travel blogs and their associated social media as …
Tourism Destination Evolution
Av Patrick Brouder, Salvador Anton Clavé m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
798 kr
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Outlining the need for fresh perspectives on change in tourism, this book offers a theoretical overview and empirical examples of the potential synergies of applying evolutionary economic geography (EEG) concepts in tourism research. EEG has proven to be a powerful explanatory paradigm in other …
Tourism and Economic Development
Case Studies from the Indian Ocean Region
Av R.N. Ghosh, M.A.B. Siddique
Inbunden, 2003
2525 kr
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Tourism has increasingly become a vital element in the economic development of the Indian Ocean region. This volume brings together leading tourism and economics experts from the region to discuss the wide range of problems and issues raised by the increasing significance of tourism such as: …
Tasting Tourism: Travelling for Food and Drink
Inbunden, 2003
2525 kr
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Along with basic practical reasons, our practices concerning food and drink are driven by context and environment, belief and convention, aspiration and desire to display - in short, by culture. Similarly, culture guides how tourism is used and operates. This book examines food and drink tourism, …
Challenge of Tourism Carrying Capacity Assessment
Theory and Practice
Av Harry Coccossis, Alexandra Mexa
Inbunden, 2004
2600 kr
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Planning and management for tourism growth is becoming essential in the context of sustainable development. Particularly so since many tourist destinations are facing severe pressures from tourist flows and activities. Such pressures are evidenced in terms of dysfunctions (congestion, environmental …
New Directions in Rural Tourism
Av Lesley Roberts, Derek Hall m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
2525 kr
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Although there has been an increasing interest in rural tourism in terms of research, training and teaching in recent years, its conceptualization and the relationships between concept and strategy are still poorly represented and not well understood. The need for such a critical understanding is …
Performing Tourist Places
Av Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt, Michael Haldrup m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
2525 kr
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This book looks at the making and the consuming of places in the contemporary world. Illustrated through various case-studies from Denmark, it considers how places, performances and peoples intersect. It examines the fascinating circumstances through which visitors to a place, in part, produce that …
Global Tourism System
Governance, Development and Lessons from South Africa
Inbunden, 2005
2600 kr
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Focusing on the political economy of the international tourism sector in the era of globalization and its impact in developing contexts, this book employs a case study analysis of South Africa to assess how international tourism as a global system of trade, production, exchange and governance plays …
Christian Tourism to the Holy Land
Pilgrimage during Security Crisis
Av Noga Collins-Kreiner, Nurit Kliot m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
1530 kr
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The historic phenomenon of pilgrimage is experiencing a resurgence around the world. A journey resulting from religious causes, it not only provides a spiritual experience, but also one of new environments, cultures and peoples, and is often undertaken as a guided tour. Yet pilgrimage as a mode of …
Sex, Tourism and the Postcolonial Encounter
Landscapes of Longing in Egypt
Inbunden, 2010
2525 kr
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Illustrated by revealing interviews with women and men in the tourist resorts in the Sinai, Egypt, this book is ostensibly about western women who sleep with 'native' men while on holiday. Broadening the scope of issues involved, it examines the link between these holiday romances and a much wider …
Landscape, Tourism, and Meaning
Av Michelle M. Metro-Roland, Daniel C. Knudsen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
2525 kr
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How do we re-theorize tourism? By drawing less on the Foucauldian notion of 'tourism as gazing' and instead focusing on the social construction of meaning in the landscape, this insightful book provides an innovative and compelling new approach to tourist studies. Arguing that in any view of the …
Cultures of Mass Tourism
Doing the Mediterranean in the Age of Banal Mobilities
Av Pau Obrador Pons, Mike Crang
Inbunden, 2009
2525 kr
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With more than 230 million international tourists a year, the Mediterranean region is the largest tourist destination in the world. This book outlines that its economic importance is matched by its significance as a cultural and aesthetic phenomenon. Through a series of ethnographic insights into …
Framed World
Tourism, Tourists and Photography
Av David Picard, Mike Robinson
Inbunden, 2009
2600 kr
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Photographs create visual narratives of experiences, places, peoples and objects that collectively and individually comprise the tourist gaze. Photography is acknowledged as having an important role in the determining of places and spaces, the construction and re-construction of identities, and the …
Crisis Management in the Tourism Industry
Beating the Odds?
Av Peter Hosie, Christof Pforr
Inbunden, 2009
2600 kr
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An important challenge facing tourism is the anticipation of the threat of crises precipitated by natural and people-made catastrophes, and being adequately prepared for them. Despite an increase in research on this issue there is still a considerable lack of clarity on the impacts of crises on the …
Planning for Ethnic Tourism
Av Li Yang, Geoffrey Wall
Inbunden, 2014
2759 kr
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Ethnic tourism has emerged as a means that is employed by many countries to facilitate economic and cultural development and to assist in the preservation of ethnic heritage. However, while ethnic tourism has the potential to bring economic and social benefits it can also significantly impact …
Cultural Tourism and Sustainable Local Development
Av Luigi Fusco Girard, Peter Nijkamp
Inbunden, 2009
2525 kr
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With the exponential rise in leisure mobility, tourism has increasingly become of great economic significance. Cultural heritage, such as museums, churches, historical landscapes, urban parks, and exhibitions attract many visitors and countries, regions and cities which house such historic-cultural …
Sex Tourism in Africa
Kenya's Booming Industry
Inbunden, 2009
2759 kr
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Illustrated by in-depth empirical research from Kenya - one of the most popular country destinations in Africa for sex tourism - this book gathers much-needed statistics and data, and then critically examines the features of tourism and the sex trade, contextualizing this in relation to tourism …
Development Tourism
Lessons from Cuba
Inbunden, 2010
2525 kr
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Tourism in Cuba - described by Fidel Castro as 'the evil we have to have' - has been regarded both with ambivalence, and as a crucial aspect of development and poverty alleviation. The result is a remarkable approach to tourism, one which often compels tourists to become agents of development …
Tourists, Signs and the City
The Semiotics of Culture in an Urban Landscape
Inbunden, 2011
2525 kr
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Drawing upon the literature of landscape geography, tourism studies, cultural studies, visual studies and philosophy, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the interaction between urban environments and tourists. This is a necessary prerequisite for cities as they make …
Stories of Practice: Tourism Policy and Planning
Av Dianne Dredge, John Jenkins
Inbunden, 2011
2600 kr
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Analyses of contemporary tourism planning and policymaking practice at local to global scales is lacking and there is an urgent need for research that informs theory and practice. Illustrated with a set of cohesive, theoretically-informed, international case studies constructed through …
Tourism and Violence
Häftad, 2017
827 kr
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Exploring the connection between tourism and violence, this book draws on a range of disciplinary approaches, including social anthropology, cultural geography, sociology, and tourism studies. Ideas and concepts of violence have long been explored in the social sciences literature but in relation …
