Destinations presents new directions for both 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. Explaining how geographic perspectives about tourist destinations reveal the experience of place for people who live and work in these communities, and examining forces involved in state planning and global economic activities, the authors show how tourism is essentially about
the creation and reconstruction of landscapes through manipulations of history and culture. The 'destination', as configured in a tourist's mind, thereby differs from the 'actual'. Destinations 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. The authors reveal how geographic conceptualizations
of tourist landscapes can constructively anticipate the range of changes wrought on emergent destinations. Greg Ringer, University of Oregon, USA; Richard Butler, University of Surrey, UK; Judith Cukier, University of Waikato, New Zealand; Jacqueline Grekin, McGill Tourism Resea
Edited by:
Greg Ringer
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: v.3
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9780415149198
ISBN 10: 0415149193
Series: Routledge Advances in Tourism
Pages: 196
Publication Date: 07 May 1998
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
,
Primary
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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;
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]
