UID:
almahu_9949598955102882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9781000998405
,
1000998401
,
9781003291817
,
1003291813
,
9781000998450
,
1000998452
Series Statement:
Routledge insights in tourism series
Content:
This book explores the concept of authenticity in tourism through the analysis of six tourist sites in Guangdong Province and Macau, China. Through a review of tourism literature, it develops the concept of pseudo-authenticity in which tourist sites and cultural products function to give signs of authenticity for tourists. This is achieved through the influence of media, authentic fakery, and faadism. Readers will gain greater insight into tourist sites in China that operate through cultural preservation, the miniaturization of cultural assets, and the replication of foreign signs through reproductions of foreign cities. The authors outline the tourist sites, an aesthetic analysis, on-site interviews with tourists, and an examination of online reviews of the sites. This is auseful work for scholars and students of tourism studies in China and around the world, especially those concerned with issues of authenticity and the effects of commodification on cultural assets.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781000998450
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 1032272104
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032272108
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003291817
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003291817
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