Tourism and Social Identities - Global Frameworks and Local Realities

Informationen zum Autor Peter M. Burns, Marina Novelli Zusammenfassung Contributes to the theoretical framework of tourism through a series of international case studies. This work assembles essays that enable dissemination of ideas on critical discourse of tourism and tourists as related to social and cultural identities. It also examines relationships between tourism, tourists, and social or cultural identities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Tourism and social identities: Introduction; Social identities and the cultural politics of tourism. Section 1 – Global Frameworks: theoretical and comparative perspectives The Politics of Negotiating Culture in Tourism Development; Sizing up the World: Scale and Belonging in Narratives of Round-the-World Travel; Close Encounters: The Role of Culinary Tourism and Festivals in Positioning a Region; The Ghost Host Community in the Evolution of Travel Law in World Trade Contexts: A Pragmatic Cosmopolitan Perspective; Cultural identities in a globalizing world: conditions for sustainability of intercultural tourism; Tourist Constructions and Consumptions of Space: Place, Modernity and Meaning. Section 2 – Local Realities: post-industrial world and transitional economies Power, resources and identity: The influence of tourism on indigenous communities; The Development of Cultural Iconography in Festival Tourism; Reconciliation Tourism: On Crossing Bridges and Funding Ferries; Sustainable Tourism and National Park Development in St. Lucia; Identity and Interaction: gazes and reflections of Tourism; Television Travels: Screening the Tourist Settler.

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• Authors: Peter M. Burns, Peter M. Novelli Burns, Peter M. Burns
• Assisted by: Peter M. Burns (Editor), Burns Peter M. (Editor), Marina Novelli (Editor), Novelli Marina (Editor)
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.07.2006
• EAN: 9780080450742
• ISBN: 978-0-08-045074-2
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 6 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Tourism industry, Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries