ISBN:
9780851997612
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (VIII, 347 S.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Tourist as a Metaphor of the Social World
DDC:
306.4/8
Keywords:
Tourism Congresses
;
Social aspects
;
Tourism -- Social aspects -- Congresses
;
Tourism ; Social aspects ; Congresses
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Urlauber
;
Tourismus
Abstract:
This text contains a selection of papers from the Research Committee on International Tourism. It provides a sociological and anthropological critique of existing tourism theory as well as some directions for its future development and research
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Contributors; 1 The Tourist as a Metaphor of the Social World; 2 The Ethnographic Tourist; 3 The Discursive Tourist; 4 The Tourist Experience and Everyday Life; 5 The Home and the World: (Post)touristic Spaces of (In)authenticity?; 6 Trusting Tourists: an Investigation into Tourism, Trust and Social Order; 7 The Tourist as a Social Fact; 8 Tourism as Metempsychosis and Metensomatosis: the Personae of Eternal Recurrence; 9 Tourism: Enacting Modern Myths*; 10 A Love Affair with Elsewhere: Love as a Metaphor and Paradigm for Tourist Longing; 11 Leading the Tourist by the Nose
Description / Table of Contents:
12 Re-centring the Self in Volunteer Tourism13 Glastonbury: a Tourist Town for All Seasons; 14 The Tourist as Peak Consumer; 15 The Cinematic Tourist: Perception and Subjectivity; 16 The Cybertourist; Index;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
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