03623nam 2200613Ia 450 991044633060332120200520144314.01-280-73567-897866107356791-84593-164-5(CKB)1000000000344482(EBL)289458(OCoLC)228145075(SSID)ssj0000260451(PQKBManifestationID)11225682(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000260451(PQKBWorkID)10224583(PQKB)11529163(MiAaPQ)EBC289458(Au-PeEL)EBL289458(CaPaEBR)ebr10157929(CaONFJC)MIL73567(EXLCZ)99100000000034448220030624d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTourism, consumption and representation narratives of place and self /edited by K. Meethan, A. Anderson and S. Miles1st ed.Wallingford CABI20061 online resource (320 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-85199-678-7 Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction: Narratives of Place and Self; 2. Disjunctures in Nationalist Rhetoric at Ireland's Brú na Bóinne Visitor Centre; 3. Ruining the Dream? The Challenge of Tourism at Angkor, Cambodia; 4. Archaeology Under the Canopy: Imagining the Maya of El Pilar; 5. Sensing Place, Consuming Space: Changing Visitor Experiences of the Great Barrier Reef; 6. Production and Consumption of Wildlife Icons: Dolphin Tourism at Monkey Mia, Western Australia; 7. Teppich-Swingers and Skibums: Differential Experiences of Ski Tourism in the Tirolean Alps8. Consuming Images: Young Female Japanese Tourists in Bali, Indonesia9. Gender Creation in Travelling, or the Art of Transforming an Adventuress; 10. More Than Just a Tourist: Distinction, Old Age and the Selective Consumption of Tourist Space; 11. Consuming Pleasures: Package Tourists in Mallorca; 12. Narratives of Sexuality, Identity and Relationships in Leisure and Tourism Places; 13. Modernist Anthropology, Ethnic Tourism and National Identity: the Contest for the Commodification and Consumption of St Patrick's Day, Montserrat; 14. Selling Celtic Cornwall: Changing Markets and Meanings?15. Creating the Tourist Destination: Narrating the 'Undiscovered' and the Paradox of ConsumptionIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; WThis book addresses the practices of consumption in tourism, a major theme in the sociology of tourism. To date, most tourism analysis has tended to concentrate on the production of tourist space, and assume that tourism consumption simply mirrors the intentions of the producers. By focussing on a number of relevant sub-themes, such as age, gender, religion and sexual orientation, the chapters within this book critically examine such assumptions in terms of the interplay between the production and consumption of tourist spaces, and how patterns of tourism consumption are negotiated on an indivConsumption (Economics)TourismConsumption (Economics)Tourism.338.4791Anderson A381474Meethan K902377Miles S902378MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910446330603321Tourism, consumption and representation2017210UNINA