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The relationships between tourism and royalty have received little coverage in the tourism literature. Tourism has also received limited attention in historical studies of royalty. This book breaks new ground in its exploration of the relationships between royalty and tourism past, present and future from a range of disciplinary perspectives.

This book is a comprehensive analysis of educational tours to Israel for Jewish youth, based on the author's empirical research. The tours are explored from multiple aspects including: history, education, population and comparison of sub-populations, ethnic and religious identity, adolescence, marketing, staff, organization and logistics.

This book explores the relationship between imperial formations and individual encounters at African tourist sites. It examines how encounters between tourists and hosts tend to be constructed along colonial thought lines and shows that ruination is omnipresent in postcolonial tourist settings. This book is open access under a CC BY ND licence.

This book examines the emerging and shifting issues in the field of gay tourism, how these relate to significant societal and technological changes and the implications of these changes for theory, policy and practice. It will be a useful resource for students, lecturers and researchers in tourism, human geography, cultural studies and sociology.

At a time when COVID-19 is transforming the tourism industry, this book presents many contemporary inconsistencies and paradoxes in tourism contexts and studies. It offers a reconsideration of what may be needed in order to equip researchers and practitioners in tourism and related fields to better interpret and manage the future of tourism.

At a time when COVID-19 is transforming the tourism industry, this book presents many contemporary inconsistencies and paradoxes in tourism contexts and studies. It offers a reconsideration of what may be needed in order to equip researchers and practitioners in tourism and related fields to better interpret and manage the future of tourism.

This book is the first to explore the relationship between tourism and Brexit from a social science perspective. Contributors from around the world use international examples to examine three entwined themes integral to tourism: travel, borders and identity. It will be useful for students and researchers in tourism, migration and European studies.

This book explores the relationship between tourism and the moving image, from the early era of silent moving pictures through to cinema as mass entertainment. It examines how our active and emotional engagement with moving images provides meaning and connection to a place and can affect our decision-making when we travel.

This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of travel guidebooks and their conceptualisation, use and impact. It challenges the current limited tourism research approaches to the topic, including the routinely held assumption that the internet has all but destroyed the printed guidebook.

This book examines the nexus between exploring and tourism and argues that exploration travel - based heavily on explorer narratives and the promises of personal challenges and change - is a major trend in future tourism.

The role of books in framing travel imaginings is an important social and cultural phenomenon. This book explores how reading books influences the way in which we understand travel and the tourist experience. It covers a variety of genres of books, from children's books and historical fiction, to westerns, science fiction and crime fiction.

This book explores the ever-changing relationships between bodies, oceans, beaches and tourism. Drawing on feminist scholarship, the book focuses on the emergence of Australian beach cultures beyond metropolitan centres from the early 19th century to the early 20th century on the Illawarra beaches, some 80 kilometres south of Sydney.

This book represents a shifting of emphasis away from the discourse of authenticity to the process of authenticating ethnic tourism. It focuses upon what authentication is, how it works, who is involved, and what are the problems in the process. It explores an intricate tourism-ethnicity relationship in the context of Hainan Island, China.

This ethnographic study involves periods of participant observation of charter tourists to the resorts of Palmanova and Magaluf on Mallorca. The book focuses on three key areas of social life: space, the body, and food and drink practices to explore issues relating to understandings of and constructions of British identity.

Focusing on the formative influence of the works of John Ruskin in defining and developing cultural tourism, this book describes and assesses their effects on the 'tourist gaze' ('where to go and what to see', and how to see it) as directed at landscape, scenery, architecture and townscape, from the early Victorian period onwards.

This book deals with tourism, popular culture and daily life in Japan. It is written in an accessible style and will be of interest to tourists considering visiting Japan, Japanophiles, social scientists and humanities scholars with interests in Japan, and students taking courses in tourism, Japanese culture, cultural studies and consumer culture.

This book of cases about rural tourism development in Canada demonstrates the different ways that tourism has been positioned as a local response to political and economic shifts in a nation that is itself undergoing rapid change, both continentally and globally.

This book provides a global examination of the relationships between archaeology and tourism. It offers a critical analysis of current issues and implications from both tourism and archaeological perspectives. It will be useful for students, researchers and practitioners in tourism, archaeology, cultural heritage management and anthropology.

This book provides a global examination of the relationships between archaeology and tourism. It offers a critical analysis of current issues and implications from both tourism and archaeological perspectives. It will be useful for students, researchers and practitioners in tourism, archaeology, cultural heritage management and anthropology.

This book focuses on perspectives from and on the global south, providing fresh data and analyses on languages in African, Caribbean, Middle-Eastern and Asian tourism contexts. It provides a critical perspective on tourism in postcolonial and neocolonial settings, explored through in-depth case studies.

This book focuses on perspectives from and on the global south, providing fresh data and analyses on languages in African, Caribbean, Middle-Eastern and Asian tourism contexts. It provides a critical perspective on tourism in postcolonial and neocolonial settings, explored through in-depth case studies.

This book explores the current state of the international backpacker phenomenon, drawing together different disciplinary perspectives on its meaning, impact and significance. Links are drawn between conceptual issues and case studies, setting backpacking in its wider social, cultural and economic context.

Roads and road tourism loom large in the Australian imagination as distance and mobility have shaped the nation's history and culture. This book explores how Australians have experienced and imagined roads and road travel over time and offers a new way of thinking about roads and road tourism as important strands in a nation's cultural fabric.

This book surveys current writing on the history of the modern hotel, focusing on areas of timely scholarly enquiry. It presents case studies, including the hotel in wartime and as a terrorist target, and critically engages with innovative scholarship that explores the relationship of the hotel to wider narratives of Western modernity.

This is the first book to exclusively address tourism and indigenous peoples in the circumpolar North. It examines how tourism in indigenous communities is influenced by academic and political discourses and how communities are influenced by tourism. The volume seeks to challenge stereotypical understandings of indigenousness and indigeneity.

This book offers new approaches and insights into the relationships between heritage tourism and notions of modernity, identity building and sustainable development in China. It demonstrates that the role of the state, politics, institutional arrangements and tradition have a considerable impact on perceptions of these notions.

This book investigates 'home' and 'homeland' as destinations of touristic journeys and adds to recent scholarly interest in the intersection between tourism and migration. It covers the temporary visits and journeys in search of home and homelands by migrants, displaced people, exiles and diasporic communities.

This book investigates 'home' and 'homeland' as destinations of touristic journeys and adds to recent scholarly interest in the intersection between tourism and migration. It covers the temporary visits and journeys in search of home and homelands by migrants, displaced people, exiles and diasporic communities.

This volume provides an overview of cultural tourism in southern Africa. It examines the utilisation of culture in southern African tourism and the related impacts, possibilities and challenges from wide-ranging perspectives. Concepts explored include authenticity, commodification, the tourist gaze and 'Otherness', heritage and sustainability.

This volume provides an overview of cultural tourism in southern Africa. It examines the utilisation of culture in southern African tourism and the related impacts, possibilities and challenges from wide-ranging perspectives. Concepts explored include authenticity, commodification, the tourist gaze and 'Otherness', heritage and sustainability.