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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781342403321

Autore

Andrews Hazel

Titolo

The British on holiday [[electronic resource] ] : charter tourism, identity and consumption / / Hazel Andrews

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol ; ; Buffalo, NY, : Channel View Publications, c2011

ISBN

1-283-14750-5

9786613147509

1-84541-184-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Collana

Tourism and cultural change

Classificazione

QQ 925

Disciplina

910.941

Soggetti

Tourism - Great Britain

Travelers - Great Britain

British - Travel - Spain - Majorca

Visitors, Foreign - Spain - Majorca

Resorts - Social aspects - Spain - Majorca

Majorca (Spain) Description and travel

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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Nation, Identity and Consumption -- Chapter 3. Symbolic Landscapes of Tourism -- Chapter 4. Consuming Spaces -- Chapter 5. The Tourist Body -- Chapter 6. The Embodied Tourist -- Chapter 7. Consuming Tourists -- Chapter 8. Conclusion: The Great Escape -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the only in-depth ethnographic study of British charter tourists. It is based on several months of participant observation of British charter tourists on holiday in Palmanova and Magaluf on the Mediterranean Island of Mallorca. With a focus on space, the body, and food and drink practices, the book explores the experiential nature of touristic practice which provides insight into constructions, understandings and knowledge of the self in relation to national, regional, class, and gender identities. These issues in turn highlight elements of power and control which are mainly articulated through the attempts to manipulate tourists' consumption practices by the



mediators of tourists' experiences.