Format:
1 online resource (208 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780203392270
Series Statement:
Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility Ser.
Content:
Due to its centrality to the processes of transnational mobilities, migration and globalization, tourism studies has the potential to make a significant contribution to understanding the postcolonial experience. Drawing together theoretical and applied research, this fascinating book illuminates the links between tourism, colonialism and postcolonialism. Significantly, it creates a space for the voices of authors from postcolonial countries. Chapters are integrated and examined through concepts taken from the wider postcolonial literature, which identify tourism not only as an international industry but also as a postcolonial cultural form, which by its very nature is based on past and present day colonial structural relationships. The first book to explicitly explore the contribution tourism can make to the postcolonial experience, this book is an essential read for students of tourism, cultural studies and geography.
Content:
Cover -- Tourism and Postcolonialism -- Title page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Tourism and postcolonialism -- 2 Tourism and new sense -- 3 Saying the same old things -- 4 Cultural tourism in postcolonial environments -- 5 About romance and reality -- 6 Commodifying heritage -- 7 Tourism and British colonial heritage in Malaysia and Singapore -- 8 A colonial town for neocolonial tourism -- 9 Neocolonialism, dependency and external control of Africa's tourism industry -- 10 Postcolonial conflict inherent in the involvement of cultural tourism in creating new national myths in Hong Kong -- 11 Globalisation and neocolonialist tourism -- 12 Conclusion -- Index.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415331029
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780415331029
Additional Edition:
Print version Tourism and Postcolonialism : Contested Discourses, Identities and Representations
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=200619
