ISBN:
0203458389
,
9780203458389
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiv, 302 pages)
,
illustrations, maps.
Series Statement:
Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility 2
Parallel Title:
Print version Tourism, diasporas, and space
DDC:
306.48
Keywords:
Tourism Social aspects
;
Travelers Attitudes
;
Tourisme Aspect social
;
Voyageurs Attitudes
;
Ethnicité
;
Identité (Psychologie)
;
Émigration et immigration
;
Ethnicity
;
Identity (Psychology)
;
Emigration and immigration
;
Travelers Attitudes
;
Tourism Social aspects
;
Identity (Psychology)
;
Ethnicity
;
Emigration and immigration
;
Tourism Social aspects
;
Travelers Attitudes
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
Emigration and immigration
;
Ethnicity
;
Identity (Psychology)
;
Tourism ; Social aspects
;
Travelers ; Attitudes
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The book introduces the main features and constructs of diasporas, and explores their implications for the consumption, production and practices of tourism
Description / Table of Contents:
'My field is the world': conceptualizing diasporas, travel and tourism / Tim Coles and Dallen J. Timothy.Tourism and third space populations: the restless motion of diaspora peoples / Keith Hollinshead. -- Conceptualizing return visits: a transnational perspective / David Timothy Duval. -- Tourism, racism and the UK Afro-Caribbean diaspora / Marcus L. Stephenson. -- Linking diasporas and tourism: transnational mobilities of Pacific Islanders resident in New Zealand / C. Michael Hall and David Timothy Duval. -- Jewish past as a 'foreign country': the travel experiences of American Jews / Dimitri Ioannides and Mara Cohen Ioannides. -- American children of the African diaspora: journeys to the motherland / Dallen J. Timothy and Victor B. Teye. -- Preparation, simulation and the creation of community: Exodus and the case of diaspora education tourism / Erik H. Cohen. -- 'To stand in the shoes of my ancestors': tourism and genealogy / Kevin Meethan.
Description / Table of Contents:
The 'isle of home' is always on your mind: subjectivity and space at Ellis Island Immigration Museum / Joanne Maddern.The culture of tourism in the diaspora: the case of the Vietnamese community in Australia / Thu-Huong Nguyen and Brian King. -- Mobilizing Hrvatsko: tourism and politics in the Croatian diaspora / Sean Carter. -- Sojourners, guanxi and clan associations: social capital and overseas Chinese tourism to China / Alan A. Lew and Alan Wong. -- Diaspora, cultural capital and the production of tourism: lessons from enticing Jewish-Americans to Germany / Tim Coles. -- Mae 'n Bryd I ddod Adref -- It's time to come home: exploring the contested emotional geographies of Wales / Nigel Morgan and Annette Pritchard. -- India and the ambivalences of diaspora tourism / Kevin Hannam. -- Reinventing Tulip Time: evolving diasporic Dutch heritage celebration in Holland (Michigan) / Deborah Che. -- Selling diaspora: producing and segmenting the Jewish diaspora tourism market / Noga Collins-Kreiner and Dan Olsen. -- Tourism and diasporas: current issues and future opportunities / Dallen J. Timothy and Tim Coles.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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