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Tourism, Performance and the Everyday - Consuming the Orient (Paperback)
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Tourism, Performance and the Everyday - Consuming the Orient (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
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Tourism has become increasingly 'exotic', a process made possible
by low-cost charter tourism and cheaper air tickets. Faraway and
evermore 'exotic' holidays are becoming widespread and within reach
as destinations make their entry into the mass tourism market.
Strolls through the bazaars of Istanbul and cruises on the Nile are
packaged into the sea, sand and sun culture of traditional forms of
organized mass tourism. At the same time new technologies weave the
fabric of tourism and everyday life even closer, circulating
images, information, and objects between them. Taking off from this
observation, Tourism, Performance and the Everyday invites readers
to follow the flow's of tourist desires, objects, meanings,
photographs, fears, dreams and memories weaving together the spaces
of and between Western Europe, Turkey and Egypt. Tourism,
Performance and the Everyday carefully analyzes the cultural and
social impacts of mass-tourist experiences of 'exotic' places on
the wider aspects of everyday life. It treats mass-tourism as a
cultural phenomenon that feeds into the practices and networks of
peoples' everyday lives rather than as an isolated, trivial or
'exotic' event. It traces how these impacts are mediated by various
mobilities between home and away through innovate mobile and
ethnographic research methods at tourist destinations and the home
of tourists. The book contains analysis of diaries, photographs,
blogs and photo web sharing sites, participant observation of
performing tourists and 'home ethnographies' of the afterlife
tourist photographs, souvenirs and memories. In doing this, the
book traces out the multiple interconnections and mobilities
between everyday spaces and leisure spaces as well as the multiple
ways in which the Orient is consumed on holiday and at home. The
book appeals to a wide audience among students, researchers and
educators within the social and cultural sciences studying,
researching and teaching theories and methods of tourism,
Orientalism and cultural encounters as well as broader issues of
leisure, consumption and everyday life.
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