"This book is the reference for tourism imaginaries academia was
waiting for. Based on excellent ethnographic work that disentangles
'glocal' issues, it demonstrates that globalization divides the
planet as much as bringing it together. Tourism and the encounters
it generates are pertinently analyzed as central pieces of the new
anthropology of glocalization." . Maria Gravari-Barbas, Director
IREST, UNESCO Chair: Culture-Tourism-Development
"I am very impressed with this book. It is the best ethnography
of tour guide training and performance to date. Indeed its probing
analyses and its many comments make a great contribution to our
understanding of contemporary international and intercultural
tourism. It is very well written and superbly referenced." . Nelson
Graburn, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
"This is a lively and enjoyable book based on rigorous research
which highlights the power and persuasiveness of international
tourism while, at the same time, critically, it reminds us that
tourism is ultimately about people and their stories." . Mike
Robinson, Director, Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
"Noel Salazar's contribution to understanding globalization and
localization processes is informed and persuasive, using
tourism-the phenomenon which has turned our world into a global
village-to illuminate, par excellence, the resulting intersects,
overlaps, and especially clashes now dominating our shared
history." . Jafar Jafari, Founding Editor, Annals of Tourism
Research
..".a clear, well-organized interesting piece of original
research on two exceptionally interesting and productively
comparable destinations. It is well placed within the tourism
studies literature." . Sally Ann Ness, Professor, University of
California, Riverside
As tourism service standards become more homogeneous, travel
destinations worldwide are conforming yet still trying to maintain,
or even increase, their distinctiveness. Based on more than two
years of fieldwork in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and Arusha, Tanzania,
this book offers an in-depth investigation of the local-to-global
dynamics of contemporary tourism. Each destination offers examples
that illustrate how tour guide narratives and practices are
informed by widely circulating imaginaries of the past as well as
personal imaginings of the future.
Noel B. Salazar received his PhD from the University of
Pennsylvania and is a Fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders
(FWO) at the University of Leuven, Belgium. His research interests
include anthropologies of mobility and travel, the local-global
nexus, discourses and imaginaries of Otherness, culture contacts,
heritage, and cosmopolitanism.
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