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Cultural Landscapes of Tourism

Greg Ringer

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English
Routledge
29 November 2011
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.

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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 11mm
Weight:   360g
ISBN:   9780415515009
ISBN 10:   0415515009
Series:   Routledge Advances in Tourism
Pages:   194
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Goodall Brian, Greg Ashworth, Greg Ringer

Reviews for Destinations: Cultural Landscapes of Tourism

'This book is thought provoking...it provides a variety of good in-depth examples of cultural landscapes and their development, production, consumption and changing representation and image...it will admirably serve the needs of scholars interested in both cultural geography and tourism.' - Barbara Carmichael, - Annals of Tourism Research [29(1) 2001]


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