Tourism, performance and the everyday consuming the Orient /

• Main Author: Haldrup, Michael.
• Other Authors: Larsen, Jonas.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
• Series: Routledge studies in contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility.
• Subjects: Tourism > Orient.; Tourism > Social aspects > Orient.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Cultural. > Anthropology; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Cultural Policy. > Public Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: ebrary; View fulltext via EzAccess

"Tourism has become increasingly 'exotic', a process made possible by low-cost charter tourism and cheaper air tickets. Faraway and evermore 'exotic' holidays are becoming widespread and within reach as destinations make their entry into the mass tourism market. Strolls thro...

Table of Contents:

• Performing tourism, performing the orient
• De-exoticizing tourist travel
• Following flows
• Material cultures of tourism
• Mobilising the orient
• Doing tourism
• Performing digital photography
• The afterlife of tourism
• Tourism mobilities and cosmopolitanism cultures.