Tourism and visual culture : Volume 1: theories and concepts

edited by Peter M. Burns, Cathy Palmer and Jo-Anne Lester

The study of tourism as a complex social phenomenon, beyond simply business, is increasing in importance. 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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Year of publication:	c2010
Other Persons:	Burns, Peter M. (contributor) ; Palmer, Cathy (contributor) ; Lester, Jo-Anne (contributor)
Publisher:	Cambridge, Mass : CAB International
Subject:	Tourismus \| Tourism \| Kulturgüter \| Cultural heritage \| Theorie \| Theory
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [external.dandelon.com]

Extent:	Online-Ressource (xxi, 224 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index Contents; Contributors; Author Biographies; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Changing Tourist Gaze in India's Hill Stations: Vignettes from the Early 19th Century to the Present; 2. 'Memory Tourism' and Commodification of Nostalgia; 3. Edward Hopper: Glancing at Gaze with a Wink at Tourism; 4. A 'Vice Among Tourists'? Trans-national Narratives of the Irish Landscape, 1886-1914; 5. Decolonizing the Gaze: at Uluru (Ayers Rock); 6. Tracking the (Tourists') Gaze: Using Technology in Visual Analysis of Identificational Strategies; 7. Gazing at the Gallant Gurkha: Glimpsing Nepalese Society 8. In the Eye of the Beholder? Tourism and the Activist Academic9. Gazes on Levanto: a Case Study on How Local Identity Could Become Part of the Touristic Supply; 10. Image, Construction and Representation in Tourism Promotion and Heritage Management; 11. Tourist Immersion or Tourist Gaze: the Backpacker Experience; 12. Receiving and Shaping the Tourist Appraising Gaze: the Lived Experience of Reception Work in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry; 13. Seeing the Sites: Tourism as Perceptual Experience 14. Goods of Desire: Visual and Other Aspects of Western Exoticism in Postcolonial Hong Kong15. Mauritanian Guestbook: Shaping Culture while Displaying it; 16. Transforming Taste(s) into Sights: Gazing and Grazing with Television's Culinary Tourists; 17. World in One City: Surrealist Geography and Time-Space Compression in Alex Cox's Liverpool; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:	978-1-84593-610-5 ; 978-1-84593-609-9 ; 978-1-84593-609-9
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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