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Since its beginnings, tourism has inspired built environments that
have suggested reinvented relationships with their original
architectural inspirations. Copies, reinterpretations, and
simulacra still constitute some of the most familiar and popular
tourist attractions in the world. Some reinterpret archetypes such
as the ancient palace, the Renaissance villa, or the Mediterranean
village. Others duplicate the cities in which we lived in the past
or we still live today. And others realise perceptions of utopias
such as Shangri-La, Eden, or Paradise. Replicas – duplitecture
– and simulacra can have symbolic meaning for tourists, as merely
inspiring an atmosphere or as truly authentic, and their
relationship to original functions, for worship, accommodation,
leisure, or shopping. Tourism and Architectural Simulacra questions
and rethinks the different environments constructed or adapted both
for and by tourism exploring the relationship between the
architectural inspiration and its reproduction within the tourist
bubble. The wide range of geographical areas, eras, and subjects in
this book show that the expositions of simulacra and hyper reality
by Baudrillard, Deleuze, and Eco are surpassed by our complex
world. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach they offer original
insights of the complex relationship between tourism and
architecture. The chapters in this book were originally published
as a special issue of the Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change.
Tourism Fictions, Simulacra and Virtualities offers a new
understanding of tourism's interaction with space, questioning the
ways in which fictions, simulacra and virtualities express tourism
in the built environment and vice versa. Since its beginnings,
tourism has inspired themed built environments that have a
constitutive, and sometimes problematic, relationship with the
"real" world and its architectural references. This volume
questions and rethinks the different environments constructed or
adapted both for and by tourism exploring the relationship between
the "real" and the "unreal" within the tourist bubble and the ways
in which the real world inspires simulacra for tourism use.
Adopting an interdisciplinary approach this book touches on a wide
range of geographical areas, eras and subjects such as
post-socialist tourism in Poland, the Hawaiian imaginary in Las
Vegas, Rio de Janeiro's Little Africa, as well as multiple
instances of virtual reality in tourism. This timely and innovative
volume will be of great interest to upper level students,
researchers and academics in tourism, architecture, cultural
studies, geography and heritage studies.
Providing a unique analysis of current multidisciplinary research
on the complex relationships between tourism and the imaginaries of
tourist destinations, this book traces the links between tourism
imaginaries and their religious (heaven) and political (utopia)
antecedents. The substantive chapters are organised into three main
thematic sections, the first explores the touristic production and
consumption of place imaginaries, the second analyses the way
places are practiced through imaginaries and the role imaginaries
play in the tourist experience and the final section explores the
way images and the media participate in the creation of tourism
imaginaries.
Since its beginnings, tourism has inspired built environments that
have suggested reinvented relationships with their original
architectural inspirations. Copies, reinterpretations, and
simulacra still constitute some of the most familiar and popular
tourist attractions in the world. Some reinterpret archetypes such
as the ancient palace, the Renaissance villa, or the Mediterranean
village. Others duplicate the cities in which we lived in the past
or we still live today. And others realise perceptions of utopias
such as Shangri-La, Eden, or Paradise. Replicas - duplitecture -
and simulacra can have symbolic meaning for tourists, as merely
inspiring an atmosphere or as truly authentic, and their
relationship to original functions, for worship, accommodation,
leisure, or shopping. Tourism and Architectural Simulacra questions
and rethinks the different environments constructed or adapted both
for and by tourism exploring the relationship between the
architectural inspiration and its reproduction within the tourist
bubble. The wide range of geographical areas, eras, and subjects in
this book show that the expositions of simulacra and hyper reality
by Baudrillard, Deleuze, and Eco are surpassed by our complex
world. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach they offer original
insights of the complex relationship between tourism and
architecture. The chapters in this book were originally published
as a special issue of the Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change.
Providing a unique analysis of current multidisciplinary research
on the complex relationships between tourism and the imaginaries of
tourist destinations, this book traces the links between tourism
imaginaries and their religious (heaven) and political (utopia)
antecedents. The substantive chapters are organised into three main
thematic sections, the first explores the touristic production and
consumption of place imaginaries, the second analyses the way
places are practiced through imaginaries and the role imaginaries
play in the tourist experience and the final section explores the
way images and the media participate in the creation of tourism
imaginaries.
Tourism Fictions, Simulacra and Virtualities offers a new
understanding of tourism's interaction with space, questioning the
ways in which fictions, simulacra and virtualities express tourism
in the built environment and vice versa. Since its beginnings,
tourism has inspired themed built environments that have a
constitutive, and sometimes problematic, relationship with the
"real" world and its architectural references. This volume
questions and rethinks the different environments constructed or
adapted both for and by tourism exploring the relationship between
the "real" and the "unreal" within the tourist bubble and the ways
in which the real world inspires simulacra for tourism use.
Adopting an interdisciplinary approach this book touches on a wide
range of geographical areas, eras and subjects such as
post-socialist tourism in Poland, the Hawaiian imaginary in Las
Vegas, Rio de Janeiro's Little Africa, as well as multiple
instances of virtual reality in tourism. This timely and innovative
volume will be of great interest to upper level students,
researchers and academics in tourism, architecture, cultural
studies, geography and heritage studies.
What does it mean to study tourism ethnographically? How has the
ethnography of tourism changed from the 1970s to today? What
theories, themes, and concepts drive contemporary research?
Thirteen leading anthropologists of tourism address these
questions, focusing on the experience-near, interpretive-humanistic
approach to tourism studies that emerged in the 1990s and continues
to be prominent today. Widely associated with the work of American
anthropologist Edward Bruner, this perspective is characterized by
an attentiveness to representation, imagination, interpretation,
meaning, and the inherent subjectivity of both ethnography and
tourism as social practices. Contributors draw on their ongoing
fieldwork to illustrate, critically engage, and build upon key
concepts in tourism ethnography today—from experience, encounter,
and emergent culture to authenticity, narrative, contested sites,
the touristic borderzone, embodiment, identity, and mobility. Using
Bruner’s work as a lens for delving into the past, present, and
future of interpretive-humanistic tourism ethnography, these
scholars provide a critical introduction to the state of the art.
With its comprehensive introductory chapter, keyword-based
organization, and engaging style, this volume will appeal to
students of anthropology and tourism studies, as well as scholars
in both fields and beyond.
Ecotourism is a well-known term, but also an ambiguous word,
misunderstood by tourists, tourism hosts and also academics. It has
received expanding attention since it has become the quickest
growing sector in the tourism industry. Literature published on
ecotourism has spent much time and debate trying to define the term
and pinpoint exactly what ecotourism is, theoretically. Many
definitions have been proposed, ranging in complexity and
preciseness, but none have been universally accepted. Much
literature also exists on ecotourism case studies, but these have
their own flaws since no one can really decide what ecotourism is
or how it should look. A large gap exists between understanding and
implementing true ecotourism, as well as understanding and
experiencing what one believes to be ecotourism, but 'true'
ecotourism is inevitably an impossible reality to many skeptics,
both tourists and academics. However, this paper will still attempt
to bridge the gap between ecotourism theory and reality by
highlighting the discrepancies between them.
**Winner of the 2020 Edward Bruner Prize from the Anthropology of
Tourism Interest Group** "Leite, Castaneda, and Adams's volume is a
beautiful retrospective of the enduring importance of Ed Bruner's
work and legacy in our field, and we have no doubt that it will be
used as a central historical, theoretical, and teaching text by
many." - Prize Committee What does it mean to study tourism
ethnographically? How has the ethnography of tourism changed from
the 1970s to today? What theories, themes, and concepts drive
contemporary research? Thirteen leading anthropologists of tourism
address these questions and provide a critical introduction to the
state of the art. Focusing on the experience-near,
interpretive-humanistic approach to tourism studies widely
associated with anthropologist Edward Bruner, the contributors draw
on their fieldwork to illustrate and build upon key concepts in
tourism ethnography, from experience, encounter, and emergent
culture to authenticity, narrative, contested sites, the
borderzone, embodiment, identity, and mobility. With its
comprehensive introductory chapter, keyword-based organization, and
engaging style, The Ethnography of Tourism will appeal to
anthropology and tourism studies students, as well as to scholars
in both fields and beyond. For more information, check out A
Conversation with the Editors of the Ethnography of Tourism: Edward
M. Bruner and Beyond and In Memoriam: Ed Bruner.
In Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe: Bridging
Worlds, Sabina Owsianowska and Magdalena Banaszkiewicz examine the
limitations of the anthropological study of tourism, which stem
from both the domination of researchers representing the Anglophone
circle as well as the current state of tourism studies in Central
and Eastern Europe. This edited collection contributes to the wider
discussion of the geopolitics of knowledge through its focus on the
anthropological background of tourism studies and its inclusion of
contributors from Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, and Poland.
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