Title Re-investing authenticity : tourism, place and emotions / edited by Britta Timm Knudsen and Anne Marit Waade

Published Bristol, UK ; Buffalo, NY : Channel View Publications, 2010

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Description xvi, 292 pages ; 22 cm Series Tourism and cultural change Tourism and cultural change. Contents Sect. 1. Staging and Practicing Authenticity -- Sect. 2. Branding and Materialising Authenticity -- Sect. 3. Re-writing and Re-mediating Authenticity -- Sect. 4. Re-empowering Authenticity -- Sect. 5. Embodying Spatial Mythologies Summary This book examines contemporary performances of authenticity in travel and tourism practices. It re-thinks and re-invests in the notion of authenticity as a surplus of experiential meaning and feeling that derives from what we do at / in places. Drawing on wide ranging perspectives and cases, it demonstrates how the feeling of authenticity within places is produced Notes Formerly CIP. Uk Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Authenticity (Philosophy) Geographical perception. Tourism -- Psychological aspects. Author Timm Knudsen, Britta. Waade, Anne Marit. LC no. 2009033599 ISBN 1845411277 (paperback: alk. paper) 1845411285 (hbk : alk. paper) 1845411293 (ebook) 9781845411275 (paperback: alk. paper) 9781845411282 (hbk : alk. paper) 9781845411299 (ebook)

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