Cultures of mass tourism doing the Mediterranean in the age of banal mobilities /

• Other Authors: Pons, Pau Obrador., Crang, Mike., Travlou, Penny.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009.
• Series: New directions in tourism analysis.
• Subjects: Tourism > Marketing. > Mediterranean Region; Culture and tourism > Mediterranean Region.; Package tours > Mediterranean Region.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Cultural. > Anthropology; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Cultural Policy. > Public Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.; Culture and tourism.; Economic history.; Package tours.; Social history.; Tourism > Marketing.; Electronic books.; Mediterranean Region > Social conditions.; Mediterranean Region > Economic conditions.; Mediterranean Region.
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Cultures of Mass Tourism discusses how mass tourism has brought about new social and cultural formations that mix global, national and local influences and offers a series of insights into some of the key sites. It looks at the new forms and spaces created, as well as the social practices and materi...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : taking Mediterranean tourists seriously / Pau Obrador Pons, Mike Crang and Penny Travlou
• Morocco : restaging colonialism for the masses / Claudio Minca and Rachele Borghi
• Banal tourism? Between cosmopolitanism and orientalism / Michael Haldrup
• The island that was not there : producing Corelli's island, staging Kefalonia / Mike Crang and Penny Travlou
• The Mediterranean pool : cultivating hospitality in the coastal hotel / Pau Obrador Pons
• 'De Veraneo en la Playa' : belonging and the familiar in Mediterranean mass tourism / Javier Caletrío
• Hosts and guests, guests and hosts : British residential tourism in the Costa del Sol / Karen O'Reilly
• Mobile practice and youth tourism / Dan Knox
• Corrupted seas : the Mediterranean in the age of mass mobility / Pau Obrador Pons, Mike Crang and Penny Travlou.