| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 240 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Places to play, places in play / Mimi Sheller and John Urry -- Demobilizing and remobilizing Caribbean paradise / Mimi Sheller -- Islands in the sun : Cyprus / Richard Sharpley -- Ecotourists on the beach / Rosaleen Duffy -- Surfing : global space or dwelling in the waves? / Rob Shields -- Little England's global conference centre : Harrogate / Viv Cuthill -- Bodies, spirits and Incas : performing Machu Picchu / Alexandra Arellano -- On the track of the Vikings / Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt and Michael Haldrup -- Art exhibitions travel the world / Chia-Ling Lai -- Reconstituting the Taj Mahal : tourist flows and glocalisation / Tim Edensor -- The paradox of a tourist centre : Hong Kong as a site of play and a place of feat / Ngai-Ling Sum with Mei-Chi So -- Barcelona's games : the Olympics, urban design and global tourism / Monica Degen -- Tourists in the concrete desert / Tue Halgreen -- Favela tours : indistinct and mapless representations of the real in Rio De Janeiro / Beatriz Jaguaribe and Kevin Hetherington -- Playing online and between the lines : round-the-world websites as virtual places to play / Jennie Germann Molz -- 'Let's build a palm island!' : playfulness in complex times / Mattias Junemo -- Atomica world : the place of nuclear tourism / Kathleen Sullivan -- Death in Venice / John Urry |
| Summary |
This book shows how a diverse array of places around the world are being produced and made fit for tourist consumption. It analyzes tourist performances such as eating, shopping, waling, photographing and clubbing |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-233) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Tourism -- Environmental aspects
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Tourism -- Social aspects
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Hospitality, Travel & Tourism.
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Tourism -- Environmental aspects
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Tourism -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sheller, Mimi, editor.
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Urry, John, editor.
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| LC no. |
2004000999 |
| ISBN |
0203340337 |
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9780203340332 |
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