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Histories, Meanings And Representations Of The Modern Hotel

by Kevin J. James

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 This book surveys current writing on the history of the modern hotel, focusing on areas of timely scholarly enquiry. It presents case studies, including the hotel in wartime and as a terrorist target, and critically engages with innovative scholarship that explores the relationship of the hotel to wider narratives of Western modernity.
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Touristic World-Making And Fan Pilgrimage In Popular Culture Destinations

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 This volume considers world-making as the intersection of the fan pilgrimage experience and the responses of destinations. It examines the emerging field of popular culture tourism and its connection with fan studies and placemaking. It integrates theory and practice and provides evidence-based recommendations for popular culture destinations.
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Touristic World-Making And Fan Pilgrimage In Popular Culture Destinations

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 This volume considers world-making as the intersection of the fan pilgrimage experience and the responses of destinations. It examines the emerging field of popular culture tourism and its connection with fan studies and placemaking. It integrates theory and practice and provides evidence-based recommendations for popular culture destinations.
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Intangible Cultural Heritage And Tourism In China - A Critical Approach

by Junjie Su

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 This book examines the relationship between intangible cultural heritage (ICH) and tourism, taking as a focus the ICH at the World Cultural Heritage site in Lijiang, China. It explores the tensions between authenticity and commodification and provides theoretical guidelines for developing a sustainable ICH tourism from a people-based approach.
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Impact Of Tourism In East Africa - A Ruinous System

by Angelika Mietzner e Anne Storch

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 This book explores the relationship between imperial formations and individual encounters at African tourist sites. It examines how encounters between tourists and hosts tend to be constructed along colonial thought lines and shows that ruination is omnipresent in postcolonial tourist settings. This book is open access under a CC BY ND licence.
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The Rise Of Tourism In China - Social And Cultural Change

by Yiping Li

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 This book offers a comprehensive understanding of Chinaâ€™s tourism development from 1992 onwards, focusing on the social-cultural change that accompanied the rise of tourism. It examines both the economic benefits and sociocultural impacts of tourism and argues that a delicate balance between these is needed to achieve sustainable tourism.
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Backpacking Culture And Mobilities - Independent And Nomadic Travel

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 This book presents fresh contributions from various disciplines, capturing the diversity of backpacker contexts, types and form. It aims to make sense of current research in order to understand backpackingâ€™s future, and produce new directions for conceptual, theoretical and methodological development and future research.
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Backpacking Culture And Mobilities - Independent And Nomadic Travel

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 This book presents fresh contributions from various disciplines, capturing the diversity of backpacker contexts, types and form. It aims to make sense of current research in order to understand backpackingâ€™s future, and produce new directions for conceptual, theoretical and methodological development and future research.
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Backpacking Culture And Mobilities - Independent And Nomadic Travel

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 This book presents fresh contributions from various disciplines, capturing the diversity of backpacker contexts, types and form. It aims to make sense of current research in order to understand backpackingâ€™s future, and produce new directions for conceptual, theoretical and methodological development and future research.
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The Passenger Experience Of Air Travel - A Critical Approach

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 Taking a critical approach to the air passenger experience, this book considers the representations, embodied practices and materialities of air travel. It brings the journey to the fore as a complex and meaningful experience, filling a gap in the social science research of tourist behaviour, traditionally focused on the destination experience.
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The Passenger Experience Of Air Travel - A Critical Approach

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 Taking a critical approach to the air passenger experience, this book considers the representations, embodied practices and materialities of air travel. It brings the journey to the fore as a complex and meaningful experience, filling a gap in the social science research of tourist behaviour, traditionally focused on the destination experience.
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Gay Tourism - New Perspectives

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 This book examines the emerging and shifting issues in the field of gay tourism, how these relate to significant societal and technological changes and the implications of these changes for theory, policy and practice. It will be a useful resource for students, lecturers and researchers in tourism, human geography, cultural studies and sociology.
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The Impact Of Tourism In East Africa - A Ruinous System

by Angelika Mietzner e Anne Storch

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 This book explores the relationship between imperial formations and individual encounters at African tourist sites. It examines how encounters between tourists and hosts tend to be constructed along colonial thought lines and shows that ruination is omnipresent in postcolonial tourist settings. This book is open access under a CC BY ND licence.
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Tourism Paradoxes - Contradictions, Controversies And Challenges

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 At a time when COVID-19 is transforming the tourism industry, this book presents many contemporary inconsistencies and paradoxes in tourism contexts and studies. It offers a reconsideration of what may be needed in order to equip researchers and practitioners in tourism and related fields to better interpret and manage the future of tourism.
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Archaeology And Tourism - Touring The Past

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 This book provides a global examination of the relationships between archaeology and tourism. It offers a critical analysis of current issues and implications from both tourism and archaeological perspectives. It will be useful for students, researchers and practitioners in tourism, archaeology, cultural heritage management and anthropology.
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Language And Tourism In Postcolonial Settings

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 This book focuses on perspectives from and on the global south, providing fresh data and analyses on languages in African, Caribbean, Middle-Eastern and Asian tourism contexts. It provides a critical perspective on tourism in postcolonial and neocolonial settings, explored through in-depth case studies.
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The Impact Of Tourism In East Africa - A Ruinous System

by Angelika Mietzner e Anne Storch

121,60€ + 10% CARD

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 This book explores the relationship between imperial formations and individual encounters at African tourist sites. It examines how encounters between tourists and hosts tend to be constructed along colonial thought lines and shows that ruination is omnipresent in postcolonial tourist settings. This book is open access under a CC BY ND licence.
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Tourism Paradoxes - Contradictions, Controversies And Challenges

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 At a time when COVID-19 is transforming the tourism industry, this book presents many contemporary inconsistencies and paradoxes in tourism contexts and studies. It offers a reconsideration of what may be needed in order to equip researchers and practitioners in tourism and related fields to better interpret and manage the future of tourism.
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Tourism And Brexit - Travel, Borders And Identity

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 This book is the first to explore the relationship between tourism and Brexit from a social science perspective. Contributors from around the world use international examples to examine three entwined themes integral to tourism: travel, borders and identity. It will be useful for students and researchers in tourism, migration and European studies.
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Tourism And Brexit - Travel, Borders And Identity

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 This book is the first to explore the relationship between tourism and Brexit from a social science perspective. Contributors from around the world use international examples to examine three entwined themes integral to tourism: travel, borders and identity. It will be useful for students and researchers in tourism, migration and European studies.
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Archaeology And Tourism - Touring The Past

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 This book provides a global examination of the relationships between archaeology and tourism. It offers a critical analysis of current issues and implications from both tourism and archaeological perspectives. It will be useful for students, researchers and practitioners in tourism, archaeology, cultural heritage management and anthropology.
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Language And Tourism In Postcolonial Settings

135,12€ + 10% CARD

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 This book focuses on perspectives from and on the global south, providing fresh data and analyses on languages in African, Caribbean, Middle-Eastern and Asian tourism contexts. It provides a critical perspective on tourism in postcolonial and neocolonial settings, explored through in-depth case studies.
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Roads, Tourism And Cultural History - On The Road In Australia

by Rosemary Kerr

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 Roads and road tourism loom large in the Australian imagination as distance and mobility have shaped the nationâ€™s history and culture. This book explores how Australians have experienced and imagined roads and road travel over time and offers a new way of thinking about roads and road tourism as important strands in a nationâ€™s cultural fabric.
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Histories, Meanings And Representations Of The Modern Hotel

by Kevin J. James

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 This book surveys current writing on the history of the modern hotel, focusing on areas of timely scholarly enquiry. It presents case studies, including the hotel in wartime and as a terrorist target, and critically engages with innovative scholarship that explores the relationship of the hotel to wider narratives of Western modernity.
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