Irish tourism [[electronic resource] ] : image, culture, and identity / / edited by Michael Cronin and Barbara O'Connor

• Pubblicazione: Clevedon ; ; Buffalo, : Channel View Publications, c2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.4/791417
• Soggetto topico: Tourism - Ireland
• Soggetto non controllato: Ireland; national identity; representation; tourism development; tourism impacts; tourism policy; tourist imagery
• Altri autori: CroninMichael <1960-> O'ConnorBarbara, M.A.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Part 1 Changing Places: The Local and the Global in Tourist Communities; Chapter 1 'If It Wasn't for the Tourists We Wouldn't Have an Audience': The Case of Tourism and Traditional Music in North Mayo; Chapter 2 Defining the Local: The Development of an 'Environment Culture' in a Clare Village; Chapter 3 Shaping Tourism Places: Agency and Interconnections in Festival Settings; Part 2 Performing Heritage: The Globalisation of Tourist Products and Practices; Chapter 4 'The Cracked Pint Glass of the Servant': The Irish Pub, Irish Identity and the Tourist Eye ; Chapter 5 Constructing an Exotic 'Stroll' through Irish Heritage: The Aran Islands Heritage CentreChapter 6 'Come and Daunce with Me in Irlande': Tourism, Dance and Globalisation; Part 3 The Power of the Gaze: Negotiating Tourist and Native Identities; Chapter 7 Power, Knowledge and Tourguiding: The Construction of Irish Identity on Board County Wicklow Tour Buses; Chapter 8 The Native Gaze: Literary Perceptions of Tourists in the West Kerry Gaeltacht; Part 4 Imagining Ireland: The Construction of Tourist Representations ; Chapter 9 Next to Being There: Ireland of the Welcomes and Tourism of the WordChapter 10 Home from Home: Diasporic Images of Ireland in Film and Tourism; Chapter 11 Photography, Tourism and Natural History: Cultural Identity and the Visualisation of the Natural World; Part 5 Tourism Policy: Historical and Contemporary Issues; Chapter Twelve Tongue-tied: Language, Culture and the Changing Trends in Irish Tourism Employment; Chapter 13 'Not Only Beef, But Beauty. . .': Tourism, Dependency, and the Post-colonial Irish State, 1925-30; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is a collection of essays that examines the social, political and cultural impact of tourism on Irish society. It deals with both the historical experience of Irish tourism and with the contemporary influence of tourism on different areas of Irish life and cultural self-representation.
• Titolo autorizzato: Irish tourism
• ISBN: 1-280-62793-X; 9786610627936; 1-873150-55-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810526703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Tourism and cultural change ; ; 1.