Exploring the Use and Impact of Travel Guidebooks (Hardcover)

This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of travel guidebooks and their conceptualisation, use and impact. Guidebooks have been key tourism paraphernalia for almost two centuries and although researched in some areas, academic knowledge on guidebooks in tourism has not been expansively communicated. The uncritical, unreflective and largely pejorative approach to guidebooks in the public sphere, and to some degree also present in academia, is reassessed in this book. This challenges the current limited tourism research approaches to the topic, including the routinely held assumption that the internet has all but destroyed the printed guidebook. This book will be a useful resource for postgraduate students and researchers in tourism and tourism communications and consumption.

General

Imprint:	Channel View Publications
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Tourism and Cultural Change
Release date:	February 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Victoria Peel • Anders Sorensen
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-1-84541-563-1
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Service industries > Tourism industry
LSN:	1-84541-563-9
Barcode:	9781845415631

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