Tourism mobilities : places to play, places in play / / edited by Mimi Sheller and John Urry
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| Titolo: |
Tourism mobilities : places to play, places in play / / edited by Mimi Sheller and John Urry
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (253 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 338.4/791 |
| Soggetto topico: | Tourism - Environmental aspects |
| Tourism - Social aspects | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
ShellerMimi
UrryJohn
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-233) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; Places to play, places in play; Performing paradise; Demobilizing and remobilizing Caribbean paradise; Islands in the sun: Cyprus; Ecotourists on the beach; Surfing: global space or dwelling in the waves?; Performances of global heritage; Little England's global conference centre: Harrogate; Bodies, spirits, and Incas: performing Machu Picchu; On the track of the Vikings; Art exhibitions travel the world; Reconstituting the Taj Mahal: tourist flows and glocalization; Remaking playful places |
| The paradox of a tourist centre: Hong Kong as a site of play and a place of fearBarcelona's games: the Olympics, urban design, and global tourism; Tourists in the concrete desert; Favela tours: indistinct and mapless representations of the real in Rio de Janeiro; New playful places; Playing online and between the lines: round-the-world websites as virtual places to play; 'Let's build a palm island!': playfulness in complex times; Atomica | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book shows how a diverse array of places around the world are being produced and made fit for tourist consumption. It analyzes tourist performances such as eating, shopping, waling, photographing and clubbing. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Tourism mobilities |
| ISBN: | 1-134-30265-7 |
| 1-280-07871-5 | |
| 0-203-34033-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910450828903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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