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This book presents new directions both for tourism and cultural landscape studies in geography, crossing the traditional boundaries between the research of geographers and scholars of the tourism industry.
Drawing on selected research from Europe, Southeast Asia, the Pacific and North America, the contributors combine perspectives in human geography and tourism to present cultural landscapes of tourist destinations as socially constructed places, examining the extent and manner by which tourism both establishes and falsifies local reality.
The book addresses many critical themes which recent critiques in tourism studies focusing on the attitudes and behaviour of the tourist and on the industry as agents of social change have ignored, including the marginalization of the 'host' community, the privatization and commodification of local culture, and how tourism acts as both agent and process in the structure, identity and meaning of local places.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction; PART I Writing the Tourist Landscape; Chapter 2 Tourism and the Semiological Realization of Space, George Hughes; Chapter 3 Cybertourism and the Phantasmagoria of Place, Chris Rojek; PART II Destinations; Chapter 4 Landscape Resources, Tourism and Landscape Change in Bali, Indonesia, Geoffrey Wall; Chapter 5 Tourism Employment and Shifts in the Determination of Social Status in Bali, Judith Cukier; Chapter 6 Rewriting Languages of Geography and Tourism, Shelagh J. Squire; Chapter 7, Simon Milne, Jacqueline Grekin, Susan Woodley; Chapter 8 Tartan Mythology, Richard W. Butler; Chapter 9 Making the Pacific, C. Michael Hall; Chapter 10 The Social Construction of Tourist Destinations, Jarkko Saarinen;
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Goodall Brian, Greg Ashworth, Greg Ringer
Summary
Drawing on selected research from Europe, Southeast Asia, the Pacific and North America, this book combines perspectives in human geography and tourism to present cultural landscapes of tourist destinations as socially constructed.
