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Titolo |
The cultural moment in tourism / / edited by Laurajane Smith, Emma Waterton and Steve Watson |
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London : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-83153-3 |
1-283-52063-X |
9786613833082 |
0-203-83175-6 |
1-136-83154-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (313 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge advances in tourism ; ; 26 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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SmithLaurajane |
WatertonEmma |
WatsonSteve |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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