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Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City (Hardcover)
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Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
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Ethnic diversity has become a crucial component of the cultural
capital of post-industrial cities. More and more travellers,
leisure seekers and others in cosmopolitan cities indulge in
ethno-cultural events and festivals and gravitate to the centers of
immigrant ethnic commerce. In so doing, these events, festivals and
centers enhance the livability, fuel the job machine and foster the
branding of these cities.
"Tourism, Ethnicity and the City "entails an exploration of
manifestations of cultural diversity by immigrant ethnic groups in
cosmopolitan cities, and deals with the question of how these
cultural manifestations are transformed into a vehicle for
socio-economic development to the advantage of both immigrants and
the city at large. The primary focus of this book is the role of
immigrant entrepreneurs and workers in the emerging ethnic tourist
industry as well as their interaction with public, private and
civil society actors in this sector. As the opportunities of the
immigranttourist industry are contingent on national and local
circumstances, the chapters cover different cities in different
countries.
The book is situated at the crossroads of two fields of research,
namely ethnic entrepreneurship and urban tourism. By addressing
this problem from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective,
the book aims at a much more thorough understanding of the
structural dynamics of commercial manifestations of cultural
diversity by immigrants, as well as their impact on immigrants'
connection to the knowledge economy and urban socio-economic
development in general.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility |
Release date: |
December 2006 |
First published: |
December 2006 |
Editors: |
Jan Rath
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
223 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-415-33390-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Earth & environment >
Geography >
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LSN: |
0-415-33390-3 |
Barcode: |
9780415333900 |
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