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Tourist Attractions : From Object to Narrative
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ISBN: 9781845416072 1845415426 9781845415426 1845416074 1845415434 1845415434 9781845415433 1845415442 Year: 2015 Publisher: Bristol, UK; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Channel View Publications,

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Tourist attractions constitute the metaphorical 'heart' of tourism. This book aims to both deconstruct and construct what tourist attractions are, how we perceive them and how we can enhance our understanding of what attracts us as tourists. The volume reaches beyond current ideas about the ways tourist attractions are created, shaped and packaged. It focuses on the importance and subjective nature of identity, memory, narrative and performance in the tourist experience to find new ways of analysing and managing tourist attractions. The book will appeal to researchers and students in tourism and destination management and heritage and indigenous tourism.


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Cultural heritage and tourism : an introduction.
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ISBN: 9781845411770 9781845411763 9781845411787 1845411765 1845411773 1845411781 1845412265 Year: 2011 Publisher: Bristol Channel View Publications

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Cultural heritage is one of the most pervasive tourism resources in the world. Most trips involve some element of culture, and heritage tourism continues to grow each year. This book provides an overview of the issues, practices, debates, concepts, and managerial concerns associated with cultural heritage-based tourism.


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The ethics of sightseeing
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ISBN: 1283277786 9786613277787 0520948653 0520257820 0520257839 9780520948655 9780520257825 9780520257832 Year: 2010 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Is travel inherently beneficial to human character? Does it automatically educate and enlighten while also promoting tolerance, peace, and understanding? In this challenging book, Dean MacCannell identifies and overcomes common obstacles to ethical sightseeing. Through his unique combination of personal observation and in-depth scholarship, MacCannell ventures into specific tourist destinations and attractions: "picturesque" rural and natural landscapes, "hip" urban scenes, historic locations of tragic events, Disney theme parks, beaches, and travel poster ideals. He shows how strategies intended to attract tourists carry unintended consequences when they migrate to other domains of life and reappear as "staged authenticity." Demonstrating each act of sightseeing as an ethical test, the book shows how tourists can realize the productive potential of their travel desires, penetrate the collective unconscious, and gain character, insight, and connection to the world.


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Ethnic and Minority Cultures as Tourist Attractions
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ISBN: 9781845414825 9781845414832 9781845414849 1845414845 1845414853 1845414837 Year: 2015 Publisher: Bristol, UK; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Channel View Publications,

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This book focuses on ethnic and minority communities in urban contexts and the ways in which their cultures are represented in tourism development. It offers a multi-disciplinary approach which draws on examples and case studies of ethnic and minority communities and cultural tourism development from all around the world, including slums in India, favelas in Brazil, Chinatowns in Australia, Jewish quarters in Central and Eastern Europe, ethnic villages in China, the African district of Brussels, the gay quarter in Cape Town and a desert town in Israel. It offers a positive perspective on ethnic and minority cultures and communities at a time when social and political support is lacking in many countries. This book will be a useful resource for those studying and researching cultural and urban tourism, urban planning and development, community studies and urban and cultural geography.


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Animals and Tourism : Understanding Diverse Relationships
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ISBN: 1845415051 9781845415051 9781845415068 184541506X 9781845415044 1845415043 1845415035 Year: 2015 Publisher: Bristol, UK; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Channel View Publications,

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This book critically examines the many ways in which tourism and animals intersect, whether as tourist attractions, wildlife conservation tools, as travel companions or as meat to be eaten. It aims to make a meaningful contribution to the growing body of knowledge concerning the relationships between animals, tourists and the tourism industry. The chapters are organised into three themes: ethics and welfare; conflict, contradiction and contestation; and shifting relationships. Theoretically informed and empirically rich, the chapters examine topics such as whale watching, animal performances, the objectification and commodification of animals and stakeholder conflict among a range of others. It is hoped that the book will help to highlight key research questions and stimulate other researchers and students to reflect critically on the place of animals within tourism spaces, experiences, practices and structures.  


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Zoos and tourism : conservation, education, entertainment?
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ISBN: 9781845411633 9781845411640 1845411633 1845411641 9781845411657 184541165X 1283147459 9786613147455 1845412079 9781283147453 6613147451 9781845412074 Year: 2011 Publisher: Bristol Buffalo Channel View Publications

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Zoos are important and popular tourist attractions. Spread around the world, they are typically located in major cities, with visitation levels comparable to other major attractions. Nature-based attractions constructed in artificial settings, they face the challenge of trying to balance potentially conflicting aims of conservation, education and entertainment. The best are continually developing fresh and effective techniques on visitor interpretation and management, the worst highlight the manipulation of animals for human gratification. Taking a global approach, this book examines the probl.

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