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This book examines how the growth of tourism in locations that have historically been considered geographically remote plays a major role in the consolidation and transformation of often longstanding and powerful cultural imaginaries about 'the edges of the world'.

This book examines how the growth of tourism in locations that have historically been considered geographically remote plays a major role in the consolidation and transformation of often longstanding and powerful cultural imaginaries about 'the edges of the world'.

This book examines the complex interplay between industrial heritage and tourism. It serves to stimulate meaningful dialogue about the socioeconomic values of industrial sites and the use of tourism for the growth of the creative economy.

This book is the first to focus on the relationship between tourism and cricket. The volume examines how cricket as a participant and spectator sport generates diverse tourism to both major and peripheral locations. It will appeal to researchers, students and teachers in tourism, sport and leisure.

This book is the first to focus on the relationship between tourism and cricket. The volume examines how cricket as a participant and spectator sport generates diverse tourism to both major and peripheral locations. It will appeal to researchers, students and teachers in tourism, sport and leisure.

This book looks at the relationship between questions of identity formation and practices in travelling and tourism. New and creative patterns of behaviour and self-realisation are emerging due to the enormous commercial interests that lie behind the travel and tourism industries. The volume considers these issues and the challenges they create.

This book looks at the relationship between questions of identity formation and practices in travelling and tourism. New and creative patterns of behaviour and self-realisation are emerging due to the enormous commercial interests that lie behind the travel and tourism industries. The volume considers these issues and the challenges they create.

This book explores the role of tourism as a means to express 'nation' and 'nationhood'. Based on field research in southwest and central Scotland it shows how various historical accounts, cultural icons and images, events and celebrations create a meaning of the Scottish nation.

This volume explores the relationship between tourism and travel texts and contemporary society, and how each is shaped by the other. A multimodal analysis is used to look at a variety of texts including novels, travel brochures, blogs and videos.

This book presents a new way of understanding heritage tourism that focuses on what people feel and not just what they see. Traditionally, semiotics points to the study of signs and symbols, and how we use them to make sense of the world. Here semiotics is extended into our other senses as part of what it means to experience heritage as tourists.

This book explores the paradoxes of Self-Other relations in the field of tourism. It particularly focuses on the 'power' of different forms of 'Otherness' to seduce and to disrupt, and, eventually, also to renew the social and cosmological orders of 'modern' culture and everyday life.

This book examines the sugar and tourism relationship in the context of globalization by identifying destination transitions from sugar to tourism. It profiles the role of sugar in colonization, enslavement, decolonization and postcolonial tourism, offering examples of sugar heritage in tourism from Europe, South America, Asia and North America.

This book examines the sugar and tourism relationship in the context of globalization by identifying destination transitions from sugar to tourism. It profiles the role of sugar in colonization, enslavement, decolonization and postcolonial tourism, offering examples of sugar heritage in tourism from Europe, South America, Asia and North America.

This book draws together case-studies which explore the changing relationships between port and resort activities in a cross-section of European maritime settings over 3 centuries. It will interest academics in tourism studies, geography and cultural studies, as well as providing information and analysis for policy makers in coastal regeneration.

This book situates souvenirs as tangible and intangible cultural expressions and triggers of tourism experience that are 'glocally' developed on the margins. The authors gain new insights with this critique that situates souvenirs of place, people and experience as constructions of transnational lives, migration and global tourism.

This book situates souvenirs as tangible and intangible cultural expressions and triggers of tourism experience that are 'glocally' developed on the margins. The authors gain new insights with this critique that situates souvenirs of place, people and experience as constructions of transnational lives, migration and global tourism.

Festivals have burgeoned in rural areas, revitalising old traditions and inventing new reasons to celebrate. How do festivals contribute to tourism, community and a rural sense of belonging? What are their cultural, environmental and economic dimensions? This book features contributions from researchers who answer such questions.

Festivals have burgeoned in rural areas, revitalising old traditions and inventing new reasons to celebrate. How do festivals contribute to tourism, community and a rural sense of belonging? What are their cultural, environmental and economic dimensions? This book features contributions from researchers who answer such questions.

This book examines contemporary performances of authenticity in travel and tourism practices. It re-thinks and re-invests in the notion of authenticity as a surplus of experiential meaning and feeling. Drawing on a range of perspectives and cases, it explores how the feeling of authenticity within places is produced.

This groundbreaking book examines the relationship between power, culture and tourism in Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Australia and South East Asia. It illustrates how culture shapes tourism development, is commodified, and becomes a tool in political and economic strategies and struggles.

Building on previous work on backpacking, this book takes the analysis of backpacker tourism further by engaging both with new theoretical debates into tourism experiences and mobilities as well as with new empirical phenomena such as the rise of the 'flashpacker' and alternative destinations.

Aspects of global coffee culture are explored as they relate to the settings where the beverage is produced, prepared and consumed as part of coffee related tourism. The book examines the potential of such tourism for developing tourism destinations, products and experiences as well as improving the livelihoods of coffee producers.

Aspects of global coffee culture are explored as they relate to the settings where the beverage is produced, prepared and consumed as part of coffee related tourism. The book examines the potential of such tourism for developing tourism destinations, products and experiences as well as improving the livelihoods of coffee producers.

This text explores tourism websites as mediums of identity construction and promotion. As interactive modes of communication, tourism websites for nations, cities, and attractions function critically in the new capitalism as calls for social action in contributing to economic and social rebirth, growth, and preservation.

This book examines contemporary performances of authenticity in travel and tourism practices. It re-thinks and re-invests in the notion of authenticity as a surplus of experiential meaning and feeling. Drawing on a range of perspectives and cases, it explores how the feeling of authenticity within places is produced.

Tourists and Travellers explores the ways in which travel and tourism in Scotland changed during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, focusing on the writings of five women - Sarah Murray, Anne Grant, Dorothy Wordsworth, Sarah Hazlitt and the anonymous author of A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland.

This book offers the first in-depth, critical exploration of the foreign retirement/expatriate communities proliferating in both size and number throughout Latin America. This book draws on a diversity of perspectives in order to analyze the social and spatial impacts that this dynamic phenomenon has on the people and places it directly affects.

This ethnographic study provides a holistic, multi-stakeholder view of the first twenty years of tourism development in a remote region of Eastern Indonesia. It examines how tourism is intertwined with life in a non-western, marginal community and analyses tourism and sociocultural change, conflict, globalisation, poverty and powerlessness.

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 on tourism in the Middle East embodies a multi-discursive approach to the study of tourism offering not only different views but qualifying local knowledge and realities.It investigates issues of national identity, authenticity, heritage, representation of cultures and regions, community and tourism development and urban tourism.