03535nam 2200601 a 450 991045270330332120200520144314.00-85745-278-9(CKB)2550000000110747(EBL)1337711(SSID)ssj0000689629(PQKBManifestationID)12236419(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000689629(PQKBWorkID)10619256(PQKB)10631674(MiAaPQ)EBC1337711(Au-PeEL)EBL1337711(CaPaEBR)ebr10745033(CaONFJC)MIL508994(OCoLC)855505433(EXLCZ)99255000000011074720110722d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGreat expectations[electronic resource] imagination and anticipation in tourism /edited by Jonathan Skinner, Dimitrios TheodossopoulosNew York Berghahn Books20111 online resource (214 p.)New directions in anthropology ;v. 34Description based upon print version of record.0-85745-277-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Great Expectations; Contents; Chapter 1 - Introduction: The Play of Expectation in Tourism; Chapter 2 - Success and Access to Knowledge in the Tourist-Local Encounter: Confrontations with the Unexpected in a Turkish Community; Chapter 3 - Emberá Indigenous Tourism and the World of Expectations; Chapter 4 - The Paradox of Gaze and Resistance in Native American Cultural Tourism: An Alaskan Case Study; Chapter 5 - Forward into the Past: 'Digging' the Balearic Islands; Chapter 6 - On Difference, Desire and the Aesthetics of the Unexpected: The White Masai in Kenyan TourismChapter 7 - Displeasure on 'Pleasure Island' Tourist Expectation and Desire on and off the Cuban Dance FloorChapter 8 - The Coach Fellas: Tourism Performance and Expectation in Ireland; Chapter 9 - Going on Holiday to Imagine War: The Western Front Battlefields as Sites of Commenoration and Contestation; Chapter 10 - Touring the Dead: Imagination, Embodiment and Affect in Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds Exhibitions; Chapter 11 - Afterworld: The Tour as Imagined, Lived, Experienced and Told; Notes on Contributors; Index The negotiation of expectations in tourism is a complex and dynamic process - one that is central to the imagination of cultural difference. Expectations not only affect the lives and experiences of tourists, but also their hosts, and play an important part in the success or failure of the overall tourism experience. It is for this reason, the authors argue, that special attention should be given to how expectations constitute and sustain tourism. The case studies presented here explore what fuels the desires to visit particular places, to what degree expectations inform the experience of tNew Directions in AnthropologyTourismPsychological aspectsTravelersPsychologyElectronic books.TourismPsychological aspects.TravelersPsychology.306.4/819Skinner JonathanPh. D.123839Theodossopoulos Dimitrios899523MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452703303321Great expectations2289613UNINA