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Tourism, performance and the everyday : consuming the Orient / Michael Haldrup and Jonas Larsen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge studies in contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobilityPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010Description: 224 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415467136
  • 9780415467131
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4819095 22
LOC classification:
  • G155.O75 H35 2010
Contents:
1. Performing Tourism, Performing the Orient -- 2. De-exoticizing Tourist Travel -- 3. Following Flows -- 4. Material Cultures of Tourism -- 5. Mobilising the Orient -- 6. Doing Tourism -- 7. Performing Digital Photography -- 8. The Afterlife of Tourism -- 9. Tourism Mobilities and Cosmopolitanism Cultures.
Summary: "Tourism has become increasingly 'exotic', a process made possible by low-cost charter tourism and cheaper air tickets. Faraway and evermore 'exotic' holidays are becoming widespread and within reach as destinations make their entry into the mass tourism market. Strolls through the bazaars of Istanbul and cruises on the Nile are packaged into the sea, sand and sun culture of traditional forms of organized mass tourism. At the same time new technologies weave the fabric of tourism and everyday life even closer, circulating images, information, and objects between them. Taking off from this observation, Tourism, Performance and the Everyday invites readers to follow the flow's of tourist desires, objects, meanings, photographs, fears, dreams and memories weaving together the spaces of and between Western Europe, Turkey and Egypt. Tourism, Performance and the Everyday carefully analyzes the cultural and social impacts of mass-tourist experiences of 'exotic' places on the wider aspects of everyday life. It treats mass-tourism as a cultural phenomenon that feeds into the practices and networks of peoples' everyday lives rather than as an isolated, trivial or 'exotic' event. It traces how these impacts are mediated by various mobilities between home and away through innovate mobile and ethnographic research methods at tourist destinations and the home of tourists. The book contains analysis of diaries, photographs, blogs and photo web sharing sites, participant observation of performing tourists and 'home ethnographies' of the afterlife tourist photographs, souvenirs and memories." -- Publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Performing Tourism, Performing the Orient -- 2. De-exoticizing Tourist Travel -- 3. Following Flows -- 4. Material Cultures of Tourism -- 5. Mobilising the Orient -- 6. Doing Tourism -- 7. Performing Digital Photography -- 8. The Afterlife of Tourism -- 9. Tourism Mobilities and Cosmopolitanism Cultures.

"Tourism has become increasingly 'exotic', a process made possible by low-cost charter tourism and cheaper air tickets. Faraway and evermore 'exotic' holidays are becoming widespread and within reach as destinations make their entry into the mass tourism market. Strolls through the bazaars of Istanbul and cruises on the Nile are packaged into the sea, sand and sun culture of traditional forms of organized mass tourism. At the same time new technologies weave the fabric of tourism and everyday life even closer, circulating images, information, and objects between them. Taking off from this observation, Tourism, Performance and the Everyday invites readers to follow the flow's of tourist desires, objects, meanings, photographs, fears, dreams and memories weaving together the spaces of and between Western Europe, Turkey and Egypt. Tourism, Performance and the Everyday carefully analyzes the cultural and social impacts of mass-tourist experiences of 'exotic' places on the wider aspects of everyday life. It treats mass-tourism as a cultural phenomenon that feeds into the practices and networks of peoples' everyday lives rather than as an isolated, trivial or 'exotic' event. It traces how these impacts are mediated by various mobilities between home and away through innovate mobile and ethnographic research methods at tourist destinations and the home of tourists. The book contains analysis of diaries, photographs, blogs and photo web sharing sites, participant observation of performing tourists and 'home ethnographies' of the afterlife tourist photographs, souvenirs and memories." -- Publisher's description.

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