Tourism consumption and representation : narratives of place and self /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2006.
• Subjects: Tourism > Social aspects.; Tourism.; Geographical perception.; Consumption (Economics); Economics > Sociological aspects.; Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Economics, (New March 2000); Consumer Economics.; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Tourism and Travel.; Consumption.; Globalization.; Social anthropology.; Sociology of tourism.; Electronic books.
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This book addresses some new developments in approaches towards tourism analysis that focus on the interface between the production and consumption of tourist space, the narratives that are created around specific sites and specific forms of tourist activity, and the ways in which these are created,...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : Narratives of place and self / Kevin Meethan
• Disjunctures in nationalist rhetoric at Ireland's Brú na Bóinne visitor centre / Stacey Lynn Camp
• Ruining the dream? The challenge of tourism at Angkor, Cambodia / Tim Winter
• Archaeology under the canopy : imagining the Maya of El Pilar / Anabel Ford and Megan Havrda
• Sensing place, consuming space : changing visitor experiences of the Great Barrier Reef / Celmara Pocock
• Production and consumption of wildlife icons : dolphin tourism at Monkey Mia, Western Australia / Amanda J. Smith, Diane Lee, David Newsome and Natalie Stoeckl
• Teppich-swingers and skibums : differential experiences of ski tourism in the Tirolean Alps / Jacqueline McGibbon
• Consuming images : young female Japanese tourists in Bali, Indonesia / Mika Toyota
• Gender creation in travelling, or the art of transforming an adventuress / Torun Elsrud
• More than just a tourist : distinction, old age and the selective consumption of tourist space / Caroline Oliver
• Consuming pleasures : package tourists in Mallorca / Hazel Andrews
• Narratives of sexuality, identity and relationships in leisure and tourism places / Annette Pritchard and Nigel Morgan
• Modernist anthropology, ethnic tourism and national identity : the contest for the commodification and consumption of St. Patrick's Day, Montserrat / Jonathan Skinner
• Selling Celtic Cornwall : changing markets and meanings? / Amy Hale
• Creating the tourist destination : narrating the 'undiscovered' and the paradox of consumption / Richard Voase.