| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 220 pages) : illustrations |
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Tourism and Cultural Change ; 42 |
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Tourism and cultural change ; 42.
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| Contents |
Contributors; Introduction; Part 1: Exchanging Places; 1The Business of Creative Tourism and Creativity in the Tourism Business; Noémia Bárbara; 2Negotiating Mobility: On the Slow Move; Marzena Kubisz; 3Mein Mallorca: A German-Spanish love affair; Petra M. Bagley; 4Commercial Cinema, Location Shooting and 'the Tourism Effect'; Anthony Barker; 5Nature, Culture and the Genesis of the Concept of Travel; Silvio Lima Figueiredo; Part 2: Narratives of Travel and Identity; 6The Appeal of Otherness: Reconstructions of Self in Contemporary Travel Writing; María del Pino Santana Quintana |
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7Representations of Maramures ̧ in Contemporary Female Travel Writing: Dervla Murphy, Caroline Juler and Bronwen Riley Marius Cris, an; 8Tourist experience in narrative fiction: E.M. Forster's A Room with a View; Fernanda Luísa da Silva Feneja; 9Deaths in Venice: Dying for a Holiday; Anthony Barker; 10Peregrinating Objects: Consumptive Capacities of the Traveller's Personal Items in Robert Byron's The Road to Oxiana and Jason Elliot's Unexpected Light; Monika Kowalczyk-Piaseczna; 11Travelling in/to Africa: narratives of postcolonial encounters; Ana Luísa Pires; Part 3: The Case of Portugal |
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12Mythical Moors: Constructing a Cultural Tourist Itinerary Around ValpaçosJenny Campos, Maria Manuel Baptista and Larissa Latif; 13(O)Porto: A Wine, a Place, a Route and a Meeting Point ; Joana Ferraz Ribeiro and Gillian Moreira; 14Cultural Interfaces and Perceptions of Space: A Polish-Portuguese Comparative Study; Danuta Gabrys ́-Barker ; 15Eating Portugal: Translating Food; Susan Howcroft |
| Summary |
This book looks at the relationship between questions of identity formation and modern practices in travelling and tourism. Unprecedented levels of mobility and international exchange over the last 100 years have raised questions about the stability of national and personal identities and new and creative patterns of behaviour and self-realisation are now emerging due to the enormous commercial interests that lie behind the modern travel and tourism industries. The volume will consider these issues and the challenges they create in various geographical contexts (Germany, Spain, Romania, Italy, |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Tourism -- Psychological aspects
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Tourists -- Psychology
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Identity (Psychology)
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Cultural relations.
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
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TRAVEL -- Budget.
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TRAVEL -- Hikes & Walks.
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TRAVEL -- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
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TRAVEL -- Parks & Campgrounds.
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Cultural relations
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Identity (Psychology)
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Tourism -- Psychological aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Barker, A. D. (Anthony David), editor.
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Bagley, Petra M., contributor
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| ISBN |
9781845414641 |
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1845414640 |
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