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Tourism and visual culture (Vol.1 Theories and concepts)

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: UK. CABI, 2010 Edition: 1st edDescription: 224 pISBN:
  • 9781845936099
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  • 306.481 BUR
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Tourism and Visual Culture Theories and concepts Front Cover Peter M. Burns, Cathy Palmer, Jo-Anne Lester CABI, 2010 - Business & Economics - 224 pages 0 Reviews Tourism is an essentially visual experience: we leave our homes so as to travel to see places, thus adding to our personal knowledge about, and experience of, the world. The study of tourism as a complex social phenomenon, beyond simply business, is increasing in importance, and by providing an examination of perceptions of culture and society in tourism destinations through the tourist's eyes, this book discusses how destinations were, and are, created and perceived through the "lens" of the tourist's gaze. It is essential reading for researchers and students in tourism and related subjects. Preview this book » What people are saying - Write a review We haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Selected pages Page 3 Page 3Page 27 Page 27Page 36 Page 36Page 33 Page 33Page 31 Page 31 Contents Vignettes from the Early 19th Century to the Present 1 2 Memory Tourism and Commodification of Nostalgia 23 Glancing at Gaze with a Wink at Tourism 43 4 A Vice Among Tourists? Transnational Narratives of the Irish Landscape 18861914 52 at Uluru Ayers Rock 64 Using Technology in Visual Analysis of Identificational Strategies 76 Glimpsing Nepalese Society 90 8 In the Eye of the Beholder? Tourism and the Activist Academic 98 the Backpacker Experience 139 the Lived Experience of Reception Work in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry 150 Tourism as Perceptual Experience 165 Visual and Other Aspects of Western Exoticism in Postcolonial Hong Kong 170 Shaping Culture while Displaying it 181 Gazing and Grazing with Televisions Culinary Tourists 191 Surrealist Geography and TimeSpace Compression in Alex Coxs Liverpool 200 Index 217 a Case Study on How Local Identity Could Become Part of the Touristic Supply 107 10 Image Construction and Representation in Tourism Promotion and Heritage Management 124 Copyright
Summary: Tourism is an essentially visual experience: we leave our homes so as to travel to see places, thus adding to our personal knowledge about, and experience of, the world. The study of tourism as a complex social phenomenon, beyond simply business, is increasing in importance, and by providing an examination of perceptions of culture and society in tourism destinations through the tourist's eyes, this book discusses how destinations were, and are, created and perceived through the "lens" of the tourist's gaze. It is essential reading for researchers and students in tourism and related subjects.
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About the author (2010)
Peter M. Burns teaches at the University of Brighton.

Cathy Palmer teaches at the University of Brighton.

Jo-Anne M. Lester teaches at the University of Brighton.

Tourism and Visual Culture Theories and concepts
Front Cover
Peter M. Burns, Cathy Palmer, Jo-Anne Lester
CABI, 2010 - Business & Economics - 224 pages
0 Reviews
Tourism is an essentially visual experience: we leave our homes so as to travel to see places, thus adding to our personal knowledge about, and experience of, the world. The study of tourism as a complex social phenomenon, beyond simply business, is increasing in importance, and by providing an examination of perceptions of culture and society in tourism destinations through the tourist's eyes, this book discusses how destinations were, and are, created and perceived through the "lens" of the tourist's gaze. It is essential reading for researchers and students in tourism and related subjects.

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Page 3Page 27
Page 27Page 36
Page 36Page 33
Page 33Page 31
Page 31
Contents
Vignettes from the Early 19th Century to the Present
1
2 Memory Tourism and Commodification of Nostalgia
23
Glancing at Gaze with a Wink at Tourism
43
4 A Vice Among Tourists? Transnational Narratives of the Irish Landscape 18861914
52
at Uluru Ayers Rock
64
Using Technology in Visual Analysis of Identificational Strategies
76
Glimpsing Nepalese Society
90
8 In the Eye of the Beholder? Tourism and the Activist Academic
98
the Backpacker Experience
139
the Lived Experience of Reception Work in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry
150
Tourism as Perceptual Experience
165
Visual and Other Aspects of Western Exoticism in Postcolonial Hong Kong
170
Shaping Culture while Displaying it
181
Gazing and Grazing with Televisions Culinary Tourists
191
Surrealist Geography and TimeSpace Compression in Alex Coxs Liverpool
200
Index
217

a Case Study on How Local Identity Could Become Part of the Touristic Supply
107
10 Image Construction and Representation in Tourism Promotion and Heritage Management
124
Copyright

Tourism is an essentially visual experience: we leave our homes so as to travel to see places, thus adding to our personal knowledge about, and experience of, the world. The study of tourism as a complex social phenomenon, beyond simply business, is increasing in importance, and by providing an examination of perceptions of culture and society in tourism destinations through the tourist's eyes, this book discusses how destinations were, and are, created and perceived through the "lens" of the tourist's gaze. It is essential reading for researchers and students in tourism and related subjects.

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