Description: This innovative volume focuses on tourism through the twin lenses of cultural theory and cultural geography. Presenting a set of innovative case studies on tourist places around the world, the contributors explore the paradoxes of the tourist experience and the implications of...
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"It is unusual to encounter a volume that actually advances the gigantic discourse on tourism. This one does it. Via a series of theoretically informed but non-doctrinaire studies of the ways tourists inflect places and vice-versa we get a glimpse of the future of tourism studies. Smart, readable, and essential for every tourist and tourism researcher." --Dean MacCannell, University of California, Davis
"Appropriately illustrated and well footnoted, the volume also has an excellent bibliography....Recommended." --Choice Reviews "Highly recommended for all cultural geographers, anthropologists, and sociologists of tourism." --H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online "Well worth reading. It could be appropriately used in a graduate course devoted to tourism and should be useful and thought provoking to tourism and travel scholars in the social sciences." --American Anthropologist "This book marks the coming-of-age of new narratives of tourism, travel, and place. Each chapter is a vital part of a whole that presents an exciting new field of research and a set of compelling insights into the pressing problems that the paradoxes of travel have generated." --Nigel Thrift, Oxford University