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Tourism, Consumption and Representation : Narratives of Place and Self.
Title:
Tourism, Consumption and Representation : Narratives of Place and Self.
Author:
Meethan, K.
ISBN:
9781845931643
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (320 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Narratives of Place and Self -- 2. Disjunctures in Nationalist Rhetoric at Ireland's Brú na Bóinne Visitor Centre -- 3. Ruining the Dream? The Challenge of Tourism at Angkor, Cambodia -- 4. Archaeology Under the Canopy: Imagining the Maya of El Pilar -- 5. Sensing Place, Consuming Space: Changing Visitor Experiences of the Great Barrier Reef -- 6. Production and Consumption of Wildlife Icons: Dolphin Tourism at Monkey Mia, Western Australia -- 7. Teppich-Swingers and Skibums: Differential Experiences of Ski Tourism in the Tirolean Alps -- 8. Consuming Images: Young Female Japanese Tourists in Bali, Indonesia -- 9. Gender Creation in Travelling, or the Art of Transforming an Adventuress -- 10. More Than Just a Tourist: Distinction, Old Age and the Selective Consumption of Tourist Space -- 11. Consuming Pleasures: Package Tourists in Mallorca -- 12. Narratives of Sexuality, Identity and Relationships in Leisure and Tourism Places -- 13. Modernist Anthropology, Ethnic Tourism and National Identity: the Contest for the Commodification and Consumption of St Patrick's Day, Montserrat -- 14. Selling Celtic Cornwall: Changing Markets and Meanings? -- 15. Creating the Tourist Destination: Narrating the 'Undiscovered' and the Paradox of Consumption -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.
Abstract:
This book addresses the practices of consumption in tourism, a major theme in the sociology of tourism. To date, most tourism analysis has tended to concentrate on the production of tourist space, and assume that tourism consumption simply mirrors the intentions of the producers.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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