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The fact that tourism is a major global industry forecast to
continue its dramatic growth well into the twenty-first century is
often cited as a rationale for its analysis. However, while the
connection between individual locations and the world's global
markets is an obvious product of tourism, the heart of the tourist
experience is the construction of identity: the relation of the
traveller to resident populations; the participants' views of
themselves and others; tourists' search for authenticity and their
testing of boundaries.
This book significantly furthers current debates on tourism by
asking important and vexing questions about the nature of the
tourist experience: 'folk museums' that forget many of the 'folk'
who live in the areas represented; the environments and events that
are shaped to meet the 'imagined dreams' of tourist spectators; the
categorization of visitors and returnees who take up residence and
participate in the construction of 'local' identities; the evolving
meanings associated with indigenous culture, tradition, heritage,
representation, reality and authenticity. In renegotiating the
definitions of tourism for the new millennium, this book represents
a major contribution to an emerging and highly topical area of
study.
The fact that tourism is a major global industry forecast to
continue its dramatic growth well into the twenty-first century is
often cited as a rationale for its analysis. However, while the
connection between individual locations and the world's global
markets is an obvious product of tourism, the heart of the tourist
experience is the construction of identity: the relation of the
traveller to resident populations; the participants' views of
themselves and others; tourists' search for authenticity and their
testing of boundaries.
This book significantly furthers current debates on tourism by
asking important and vexing questions about the nature of the
tourist experience: 'folk museums' that forget many of the 'folk'
who live in the areas represented; the environments and events that
are shaped to meet the 'imagined dreams' of tourist spectators; the
categorization of visitors and returnees who take up residence and
participate in the construction of 'local' identities; the evolving
meanings associated with indigenous culture, tradition, heritage,
representation, reality and authenticity. In renegotiating the
definitions of tourism for the new millennium, this book represents
a major contribution to an emerging and highly topical area of
study.
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