The cultural moment in tourism / / edited by Laurajane Smith, Emma Waterton and Steve Watson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461811103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Routledge, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-52063-X; 9786613833082; 0-203-83175-6; 1-136-83154-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Collana: Routledge advances in tourism ; ; 26
• Altri autori (Persone): SmithLaurajane; WatertonEmma; WatsonSteve
• Disciplina: 338.4/791
• Soggetti: Heritage tourism; Tourism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; The Cultural Moment in Tourism; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Moments, instances and experiences; PART I: The moment in theory; 1. Meaning, encounter and performativity: threads and moments of spacetimes in doing tourism; 2. The somatic and the aesthetic: embodied heritage tourism experiences of Luang Prabang, Laos; PART II: The moment performed; 3. Taking Dracula on holiday: the presence of 'home' in the tourist encounter; 4. Touring heritage, performing home: cultural encounters in Singapore; 5. The commemoration of slavery heritage: tourism and the reification of meaning6. Engagement and performance: created identities in steampunk, cosplay and re-enactment; 7. Publics versus professionals: agency and engagement with 'Robin Hood' and the 'Pilgrim Fathers' in Nottinghamshire; PART III: Moments and others; 8. Shades of the Caliphate: the cultural moment in southern Spain; 9. 'You no longer need to imagine': bus touring through South Central Los Angeles ; gangland; 10. The cultural 'work' of tourism; 11. The numen experience in heritage tourism; PART IV: The moment transformed; 12. The truth of the crowds: social media and the heritage experience13. The lingering moment; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is a response to the burgeoning interest in cultural tourism and the associated need for a coherently theorized approach for understanding the practices that such an interest creates. Cultural tourism has become an important and popular aspect of contemporary tourism studies, as well as providing a rich seam of upscale product development opportunities in the industry as a whole. Much of the related literature, however, focuses upon describing and categorizing cultural tourism from a supply-side perspective. This has prompted the taxonomizing of cultural tourists on the basis of t