UID:
almafu_9959238324202883
Format:
1 online resource (253 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-30264-9
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1-134-30265-7
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1-280-07871-5
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0-203-34033-7
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; Places to play, places in play; Performing paradise; Demobilizing and remobilizing Caribbean paradise; Islands in the sun: Cyprus; Ecotourists on the beach; Surfing: global space or dwelling in the waves?; Performances of global heritage; Little England's global conference centre: Harrogate; Bodies, spirits, and Incas: performing Machu Picchu; On the track of the Vikings; Art exhibitions travel the world; Reconstituting the Taj Mahal: tourist flows and glocalization; Remaking playful places
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The paradox of a tourist centre: Hong Kong as a site of play and a place of fearBarcelona's games: the Olympics, urban design, and global tourism; Tourists in the concrete desert; Favela tours: indistinct and mapless representations of the real in Rio de Janeiro; New playful places; Playing online and between the lines: round-the-world websites as virtual places to play; 'Let's build a palm island!': playfulness in complex times; Atomica
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-33878-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-33879-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203340332
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=199457
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