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What happens when tourists scream with fear, shout with anger and
frustration, weep with joy and delight, or even faint in the face
of revealed beauty? How can certain sites affect some tourists so
deeply that they require hospitalisation and psychiatric treatment?
What are the inner contours of tourist experience and how does it
relate to specific emotional cultures? What are the consequences of
the emotional cultures of tourists upon destinations? How are
differences in emotional culture mobilized and played out in the
transnational contact zones of international tourism? While many
books have engaged with the structural frames of tourist practice
and experience, this is the first to deal with the emotional
dimensions of tourism, travel and contact and the ways in which
they can transform tourists, destinations and travel cultures
through emotional engagements. The book brings together an
international array of scholars from anthropology, psychiatry,
history, cultural geography and critical tourism studies to explore
how the movement to, and through, the realms of exotic people, wild
natures, subliminal art, spirit worlds, metropolitan cities and
sexualised 'others' variably provoke emotions, peak experiences,
travel syndromes and inner dialogues. The authors show how tourism
challenges us to engage with concepts of self, other, time, nature,
sex, the body and death. Through a set of ethnographic and historic
cases, they demonstrate that such engagements usually have little
to do with the actual destination but rather, are deeply anchored
in personal memories, repressed fears and desires, and the
collective imaginaries of our societies.
What happens when tourists scream with fear, shout with anger and
frustration, weep with joy and delight, or even faint in the face
of revealed beauty? How can certain sites affect some tourists so
deeply that they require hospitalisation and psychiatric treatment?
What are the inner contours of tourist experience and how does it
relate to specific emotional cultures? What are the consequences of
the emotional cultures of tourists upon destinations? How are
differences in emotional culture mobilized and played out in the
transnational contact zones of international tourism? While many
books have engaged with the structural frames of tourist practice
and experience, this is the first to deal with the emotional
dimensions of tourism, travel and contact and the ways in which
they can transform tourists, destinations and travel cultures
through emotional engagements. The book brings together an
international array of scholars from anthropology, psychiatry,
history, cultural geography and critical tourism studies to explore
how the movement to, and through, the realms of exotic people, wild
natures, subliminal art, spirit worlds, metropolitan cities and
sexualised 'others' variably provoke emotions, peak experiences,
travel syndromes and inner dialogues. The authors show how tourism
challenges us to engage with concepts of self, other, time, nature,
sex, the body and death. Through a set of ethnographic and historic
cases, they demonstrate that such engagements usually have little
to do with the actual destination but rather, are deeply anchored
in personal memories, repressed fears and desires, and the
collective imaginaries of our societies.
Photographs create visual narratives of experiences, places,
peoples and objects that collectively and individually comprise the
tourist gaze. Photography is acknowledged as having an important
role in the determining of places and spaces, the construction and
re-construction of identities, and the invention and re-invention
of histories. So why do tourists take photos of certain things and
not of others? Why do tourists take photos at all? How do photos
build places, how do they change and shape lives? An
interdisciplinary team of contributors from across the globe
explore such questions as they examine the relationships between
photography and tourism and tourists.
Series Information: Routledge World Reference
Going far beyond being just a mega sport event, the Olympic Games
are, and have been in the past, important settings for tourism and
cultural change. Hosting the Olympic Games presents a unique
opportunity for countries to promote, regenerate, and develop
cities and regions, and to firmly locate them within an
increasingly competitive global tourism marketplace. From Athens to
Rio de Janeiro, Olympic landmark buildings, 'districts', and
'parks' have permanently transformed cities and regions, and gained
tremendous material and symbolic value as tourist attractions. On
another level, the Olympic Games produce a kaleidoscopic range of
intangible and quasi-religious engagements with place and
spectacle. They have a tremendous impact on the image of the host
country, while invoking collective memories and touching on
emotions such as suspense, compassion, togetherness, and pride.
Tourism has also become a major watchword in ongoing debates on the
'legacy' of the Olympic Games, and it deeply penetrates discourses
on social justice and cultural change on a local, national and
global scale. This book was originally published as a special issue
of the Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change.
The remarkable success of the 1972 UNESCO Convention Concerning the
Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage is borne out by
the fact that nearly 1,000 properties have now been designated as
possessing Outstanding Universal Value and recognition given to the
imperative for their protection. However, the remarkable success of
the Convention is not without its challenges and a key issue for
many Sites relates to the touristic legacies of inscription. For
many sites inscription on the World Heritage List acts as a
promotional device and the management challenge is one of
protection, conservation and dealing with increased numbers of
tourists. For other sites, designation has not brought anticipated
expansion in tourist numbers and associated investments. What is
clear is that tourism is now a central concern to the wide array of
stakeholders involved with World Heritage Sites.
Based on the commonly held assumption that we now live in a world
that is 'on the move', with growing opportunities for both real and
virtual travel and the blurring of boundaries between previously
defined places, societies and cultures, the theme of this book is
firmly grounded in the interdisciplinary field of 'Mobilities'.
'Mobilities' deals with the movement of people, objects, capital,
information, ideas and cultures on varying scales, and across a
variety of borders, from the local to the national to the global.
It includes all forms of travel from forced migration for economic
or political reasons, to leisure travel and tourism, to virtual
travel via the myriad of electronic channels now available to much
of the world's population. Underpinning the choice of theme is a
desire to consider the important role of languages and
intercultural communication in travel and border crossings; an area
which has tended to remain in the background of Mobilities
research. The chapters included in this volume represent unique
interdisciplinary understandings of the dual concepts of mobile
language and border crossings, from crossings in 'virtual life' and
'real life', to crossings in literature and translation, and
finally to crossings in the 'semioscape' of tourist guides and
tourism signs. This book was originally published as a special
issue of Language and Intercultural Communication.
This volume is based on the recognition that heritage is popular
and popular culture is now readily transformed into heritage whose
meanings and myths reshape social life and political and economic
realities as well as re-make “tradition.” The papers in this
volume consider: What does popular heritage look like? To whom does
it speak? Is it active in dissolving class and cultural boundaries
or just in reproducing new ones? How do societies manage a heritage
that is fluid, immediate and that straddles extremes of serious
conflict and hedonistic frivolity? When/under what circumstances is
the creation and expression of new cultural forms – popular
culture – capable of being transformed into heritage?.
Going far beyond being just a mega sport event, the Olympic Games
are, and have been in the past, important settings for tourism and
cultural change. Hosting the Olympic Games presents a unique
opportunity for countries to promote, regenerate, and develop
cities and regions, and to firmly locate them within an
increasingly competitive global tourism marketplace. From Athens to
Rio de Janeiro, Olympic landmark buildings, 'districts', and
'parks' have permanently transformed cities and regions, and gained
tremendous material and symbolic value as tourist attractions. On
another level, the Olympic Games produce a kaleidoscopic range of
intangible and quasi-religious engagements with place and
spectacle. They have a tremendous impact on the image of the host
country, while invoking collective memories and touching on
emotions such as suspense, compassion, togetherness, and pride.
Tourism has also become a major watchword in ongoing debates on the
'legacy' of the Olympic Games, and it deeply penetrates discourses
on social justice and cultural change on a local, national and
global scale. This book was originally published as a special issue
of the Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change.
This volume is based on the recognition that heritage is popular
and popular culture is now readily transformed into heritage whose
meanings and myths reshape social life and political and economic
realities as well as re-make "tradition." The papers in this volume
consider: What does popular heritage look like? To whom does it
speak? Is it active in dissolving class and cultural boundaries or
just in reproducing new ones? How do societies manage a heritage
that is fluid, immediate and that straddles extremes of serious
conflict and hedonistic frivolity? When/under what circumstances is
the creation and expression of new cultural forms - popular culture
- capable of being transformed into heritage?.
This book explores the links between tourism and festivals and the
various ways in which each mobilises the other to make social
realities meaningful. Drawing upon a series of international cases,
festivals are examined as ways of responding to various forms of
crisis - social, political, economic - and as a way of re-making
and re-animating spaces and social life. Importantly, this book
locates festivals in the constantly changing, socio-economic and
political contexts that they always operate in and respond to -
contexts that are both historical and modern at the same time.
Tourism is bound closely together with such contexts; feeding and
challenging festivals with audiences that are increasingly
transient and transnational. Tourism interrogates notions of ritual
and tradition, shapes new spaces and creates, and renews,
relationships between participants and observers. No longer can we
dismiss tourists simply as value neutral and crass consumers of
spectacle, nor tourism as some inevitable commercial force. Tourism
is increasingly complicit in the festival processes of
re-invention, and in forming new patterns of social existence.
This book explores the links between tourism and festivals and the
various ways in which each mobilises the other to make social
realities meaningful. Drawing upon a series of international cases,
festivals are examined as ways of responding to various forms of
crisis - social, political, economic - and as a way of re-making
and re-animating spaces and social life. Importantly, this book
locates festivals in the constantly changing, socio-economic and
political contexts that they always operate in and respond to -
contexts that are both historical and modern at the same time.
Tourism is bound closely together with such contexts; feeding and
challenging festivals with audiences that are increasingly
transient and transnational. Tourism interrogates notions of ritual
and tradition, shapes new spaces and creates, and renews,
relationships between participants and observers. No longer can we
dismiss tourists simply as value neutral and crass consumers of
spectacle, nor tourism as some inevitable commercial force. Tourism
is increasingly complicit in the festival processes of
re-invention, and in forming new patterns of social existence.
At the interface between culture and tourism lies a series of deep
and challenging issues relating to how we deal with issues of
political engagement, social justice, economic change, belonging,
identity and meaning. This book introduces researchers, students
and practitioners to a range of interesting and complex debates
regarding the political and social implications of cultural tourism
in a changing world. Concise and thematic theoretical sections
provide the framework for a range of case studies, which
contextualise and exemplify the issues raised. The book focuses on
both traditional and popular culture, and explores some of the
tensions between cultural preservation and social transformation.
The book is divided into thematic sections - Politics and Policy;
Community Participation and Empowerment; Authenticity and
Commodification; and Interpretation and Representation - and will
be of interest to all who wish to understand how cultural tourism
continues to evolve as a focal point for understanding a changing
world.
Not all World Heritage Sites have people living within or close by
their boundaries, but many do. The designation of World Heritage
status brings a new dimension to the functioning of local
communities and particularly through tourism. Too many tourists
accentuated by the World Heritage label, or in some cases not
enough tourists, despite anticipation of increased numbers, can act
to disrupt and disturb relations within a community and between
communities. Either way, tourism can be seen as a form of activity
that can generate interest and concern as it is played out within
World Heritage Sites. But the relationships that World Heritage
Sites and their consequent tourism share with communities are not
just a function of the number of tourists. The relationships are
complex and ever changing as the communities themselves change and
are built upon long-standing and wider contextual factors that
stretch beyond tourism. This volume, drawing upon a wide range of
international cases relating to some 33 World Heritage Sites,
reveals the multiple dimensions of the relations that exist between
the sites and local communities. The designation of the sites can
create, obscure and heighten the power relations between different
parts of a community, between different communities and between the
tourism and the heritage sector. Increasingly, the management of
World Heritage is not only about the management of buildings and
landscapes but about managing the communities that live and work in
or near them.
The remarkable success of the 1972 UNESCO Convention Concerning the
Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage is borne out by
the fact that nearly 1,000 properties have now been designated as
possessing Outstanding Universal Value and recognition given to the
imperative for their protection. However, the remarkable success of
the Convention is not without its challenges and a key issue for
many Sites relates to the touristic legacies of inscription. For
many sites inscription on the World Heritage List acts as a
promotional device and the management challenge is one of
protection, conservation and dealing with increased numbers of
tourists. For other sites, designation has not brought anticipated
expansion in tourist numbers and associated investments. What is
clear is that tourism is now a central concern to the wide array of
stakeholders involved with World Heritage Sites.
Not all World Heritage Sites have people living within or close by
their boundaries, but many do. The designation of World Heritage
status brings a new dimension to the functioning of local
communities and particularly through tourism. Too many tourists
accentuated by the World Heritage label, or in some cases not
enough tourists, despite anticipation of increased numbers, can act
to disrupt and disturb relations within a community and between
communities. Either way, tourism can be seen as a form of activity
that can generate interest and concern as it is played out within
World Heritage Sites. But the relationships that World Heritage
Sites and their consequent tourism share with communities are not
just a function of the number of tourists. The relationships are
complex and ever changing as the communities themselves change and
are built upon long-standing and wider contextual factors that
stretch beyond tourism. This volume, drawing upon a wide range of
international cases relating to some 33 World Heritage Sites,
reveals the multiple dimensions of the relations that exist between
the sites and local communities. The designation of the sites can
create, obscure and heighten the power relations between different
parts of a community, between different communities and between the
tourism and the heritage sector. Increasingly, the management of
World Heritage is not only about the management of buildings and
landscapes but about managing the communities that live and work in
or near them.
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) has emerged as a new
interdisciplinary forum for research into the issues central to the
design, implementation and use of technical systems which support
people working cooperatively. This rigorously selected volume of
papers contains both practical and theoretical approaches from many
of the leading researchers in the field. This collection
necessarily emphasises European research, where many of the
initiatives in CSCW originated. However, the papers have been
selected for international appeal and many international
contributions from, for example, leading researchers in the United
States and Japan are also included. This collection will be of
interest to a wide audience because of the interdisciplinary nature
of the problems and solutions proposed. These include the human and
information sciences generally, cognitive scientists,
psychologists, and allied technologists and social scientists.
Running 93 miles from the heathland and forest on the
Norfolk-Suffolk border, via stunning sandy beaches, picturesque
villages and wild, empty salt marsh to the traditional seaside
resort of Cromer on the north Norfolk coast, the Peddars Way and
Norfolk Coast Path is a wonderfully varied and interesting National
Trail. There is the archaeological interest of the Roman road whose
route the trail first follows to the coast, the magnificent
architecture of Norfolk' s characteristic flint churches, and for
birdwatchers an embarrassment of riches, from the rare stone
curlews of Breckland to the marsh harriers sailing above the
reedbeds at the spectacular nature reserves of Titchwell and Cley.
This official guide, published in conjunction with Natural England,
is the only companion you need.
At the interface between culture and tourism lies a series of deep
and challenging issues relating to how we deal with issues of
political engagement, social justice, economic change, belonging,
identity and meaning. This book introduces researchers, students
and practitioners to a range of interesting and complex debates
regarding the political and social implications of cultural tourism
in a changing world. Concise and thematic theoretical sections
provide the framework for a range of case studies, which
contextualise and exemplify the issues raised. Emphasis is placed
on politics and policy, community participation and empowerment,
authenticity and commodification, and interpretation and
representation. The book focuses on both traditional and popular
culture, and explores some of the tensions between cultural
preservation and social transformation. The book is divided into
thematic sections - Politics and Policy; Community Participation
and Empowerment; Authenticity and Commodification; and
Interpretation and Representation - and will be of interest to all
who wish to understand how cultural tourism continues to evolve as
a focal point for understanding a changing world.
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