03900nam 2200733Ia 450 991082700330332120200520144314.01-136-83153-31-283-52063-X97866138330820-203-83175-61-136-83154-110.4324/9780203831755 (CKB)2670000000230891(EBL)987923(OCoLC)804661706(SSID)ssj0000695235(PQKBManifestationID)11481371(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000695235(PQKBWorkID)10675768(PQKB)11743081(MiAaPQ)EBC987923(Au-PeEL)EBL987923(CaPaEBR)ebr10588984(CaONFJC)MIL383308(OCoLC)811383471(OCoLC)706022713(FINmELB)ELB138183(EXLCZ)99267000000023089120110912d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe cultural moment in tourism /Laurajane Smith, Emma Waterton and Steve Watson1st ed.Abingdon, Oxon ;New York Routledgec20121 online resource (313 p.)Routledge advances in tourism ;26Description based upon print version of record.1-138-08144-2 0-415-61115-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Singapore5. 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 transformed12. The truth of the crowds: social media and the heritage experience13. The lingering moment; IndexThis 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 tRoutledge advances in tourism.Heritage tourismTourismHeritage tourism.Tourism.338.4/791Smith Laurajane758490Waterton Emma329682Watson Steve923108MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827003303321The cultural moment in tourism4053344UNINA