| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 207 pages) |
| Series |
New directions in anthropology ; v. 34 |
|
New directions in anthropology ; v. 34.
|
| Contents |
Introduction : The play of expectation in tourism / Jonathan Skinner and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos -- Success and access to knowledge in the tourist-local encounter : confrontations with the unexpected in a Turkish community / Hazel Tucker -- Emberá Indigenous tourism and the world of expectations / Dimitrios Theodossopoulos -- The paradox of gaze and resistance in native American cultural tourism : an Alaskan case study / Alexis Celeste Bunten -- Forward into the past : 'digging' the Balearic Islands / Jacqueline Waldren -- On difference, desire and the aesthetics of the unexpected : The white Masai in Kenyan tourism / George Paul Meiu -- Displeasure on 'Pleasure Island' : tourist expectation and desire on and off the Cuban dance floor / Jonathan Skinner -- The coach fellas : tourism performance and expectation in Ireland / Kelli Ann Malone -- Going on holiday to imagine war : the Western Front battlefields as sites of commemoration and contestation / Jennifer Iles -- Touring the dead : imagination, embodiment and affect in Gunther von Hagen's Body worlds exhibitions / Jane C. Desmond -- Afterword : The tour as imagined, lived, experienced and told / Edward M. Bruner |
| Summary |
"The negotiation of expectations in tourism is a complex and dynamic process - one that is central to the imagination of cultural difference. Expectations not only affect the lives and experiences of tourists, but also their hosts, and play an important part in the success or failure of the overall tourism experience. It is for this reason, the authors argue, that special attention should be given to how expectations constitute and sustain tourism. The case studies presented here explore what fuels the desires to visit particular places, to what degree expectations inform the experience of the place, and the frequent disjunctions between tourist expectations and experiences. Careful attention is paid to how the imagination of the visitor inspires the imagination of the host, and vice-versa; how tourists and host communities actively imagine, re-imagine, and shape each other's lives. This realization, has profound consequences, not solely for academic analysis, but for all those who participate in and work within the tourism industry." -- Publisher's Description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Tourism -- Psychological aspects
|
|
Travelers -- Psychology
|
|
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
|
|
Tourism -- Psychological aspects
|
|
Travelers -- Psychology
|
|
Erwartung
|
|
Psychologie
|
|
Reise
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Skinner, Jonathan, 1970- editor.
|
|
Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios, editor.
|
| ISBN |
9780857452788 |
|
0857452789 |
|
