Format:
1 online resource (313 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415611152
,
9781136831546
Series Statement:
Advances in Tourism Series
Content:
This book is a response to the burgeoning interest in cultural tourism and the associated need for a coherently theorized approach for understanding the practices and processes that such an interest creates. This groundbreaking volume provides a theoretical and empirical account of what it means to be a cultural tourist and a creative, affective user of heritage itself. It is a fundamental and influential contribution to research in this field - it will be significant value to students, academics and researchers interested in this broad topic area
Note:
Cover -- The Cultural Moment in Tourism -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Moments, instances and experiences -- PART I: The moment in theory -- 1. Meaning, encounter and performativity: threads and moments of spacetimes in doing tourism -- 2. The somatic and the aesthetic: embodied heritage tourism experiences of Luang Prabang, Laos -- PART II: The moment performed -- 3. Taking Dracula on holiday: the presence of 'home' in the tourist encounter -- 4. Touring heritage, performing home: cultural encounters in Singapore -- 5. The commemoration of slavery heritage: tourism and the reification of meaning -- 6. Engagement and performance: created identities in steampunk, cosplay and re-enactment -- 7. Publics versus professionals: agency and engagement with 'Robin Hood' and the 'Pilgrim Fathers' in Nottinghamshire -- PART III: Moments and others -- 8. Shades of the Caliphate: the cultural moment in southern Spain -- 9. 'You no longer need to imagine': bus touring through South Central Los Angeles gangland -- 10. The cultural 'work' of tourism -- 11. The numen experience in heritage tourism -- PART IV: The moment transformed -- 12. The truth of the crowds: social media and the heritage experience -- 13. The lingering moment -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Smith, Laurajane The Cultural Moment in Tourism Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2012 ISBN 9780415611152
Language:
English
Keywords:
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