Cultures Of Mass Tourism

Author : Pau Obrador Pons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317155645

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Cultures of Mass Tourism by Pau Obrador Pons Pdf

With more than 230 million international tourists a year, the Mediterranean region is the largest tourist destination in the world. This book outlines that its economic importance is matched by its significance as a cultural and aesthetic phenomenon. Through a series of ethnographic insights into some of the key sites of mass Mediterranean tourism, it focuses on package tourists' experiences of the serial, banal and depthless spaces that are mushrooming along the coast and the enchantments, dissolutions and dreams that saturate them. Moving away from the notion of authentic places corrupted by mass tourism, the book shows how new forms and spaces are made and remade by the mobilities and performances of locals, workers and tourists. Finally, the book looks at the complex materialities of mass tourism and the many networks that make it possible.

Author : Jeremy Boissevain†
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996-07-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781789203738

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Coping with Tourists by Jeremy Boissevain† Pdf

Once content to sunbathe and follow guides and established itineraries, tourists are increasingly seeking authentic culture. This is taking them into the private areas and zones to which the locals retire in order to escape the tourist gaze, creating tensions between the two groups. Based on recent anthropological field studies, this book describes how European communities dependant on tourism have been affected by the commoditization of their culture and explores the ways they cope with the constant attention of outsiders. The collection demonstrates both varied and skillful ways in which individuals and communities react to and cope with the impact of decades of mass tourism on their lives and values, thus throwing new light onto questions of identity, boundary maintenance and cultural adjustment.

Author : Luciano Segreto,Carles Manera,Manfred Pohl
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845459116

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Europe At the Seaside by Luciano Segreto,Carles Manera,Manfred Pohl Pdf

Mass tourism is one of the most striking developments in postwar western societies, involving economic, social, cultural, and anthropological factors. For many countries it has become a significant, if not the primary, source of income for the resident population. The Mediterranean basin, which has long been a very popular destination, is explored here in the first study to scrutinize the region as a whole and over a long period of time. In particular, it investigates the area’s economic and social networks directly involved in tourism, which includes examining the most popular spots that attract tourists and the crucial actors, such as hotel entrepreneurs, travel agencies, charter companies, and companies developing seaside resort networks. This important volume presents a fascinating picture of the economics of tourism in one of the world’s most visited destinations.

Author : Julio Aramberri
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781848552388

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Modern Mass Tourism by Julio Aramberri Pdf

Broadly speaking, academic tourism research comes in two main shapes - why and how to. Both traditions seem unable to ever meet and their trajectory reminds of scissors agape. This title argues that tourism research finds itself in a serious scissors crisis. It reflects on how the crisis came about and looks at its effect on the real world.

Author : Pau Obrador Pons,Penny Travlou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Culture and tourism
ISBN : 1315575566

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Cultures of Mass Tourism by Pau Obrador Pons,Penny Travlou Pdf

Author : Vicky Katsoni,Ciná van Zyl
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 771 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030724696

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Culture and Tourism in a Smart, Globalized, and Sustainable World by Vicky Katsoni,Ciná van Zyl Pdf

This book gathers the proceedings of the 7th International Conference, with the theme “Culture and Tourism in a Smart, Globalized and Sustainable World,” held on Hydra Island, Greece, on June 17–19, 2020, published with the support of the International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism. Highlighting the contributions made by numerous writers to the advancement of tourism research, this book presents a critical academic discourse on sustainable practices in the smart tourism context, improving readers’ understanding of, and stimulating future debates in, this critical area. In addition to the knowledge economy and the concept of smart destinations, the book addresses new modes of tourism management and development, as well as emerging technologies, including location-based services, the Internet of things, smart cities, mobile services, gamification, digital collections and the virtual visitor, social media, social networking, and augmented reality.

Author : Pau Obrador Pons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317155652

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Cultures of Mass Tourism by Pau Obrador Pons Pdf

With more than 230 million international tourists a year, the Mediterranean region is the largest tourist destination in the world. This book outlines that its economic importance is matched by its significance as a cultural and aesthetic phenomenon. Through a series of ethnographic insights into some of the key sites of mass Mediterranean tourism, it focuses on package tourists' experiences of the serial, banal and depthless spaces that are mushrooming along the coast and the enchantments, dissolutions and dreams that saturate them. Moving away from the notion of authentic places corrupted by mass tourism, the book shows how new forms and spaces are made and remade by the mobilities and performances of locals, workers and tourists. Finally, the book looks at the complex materialities of mass tourism and the many networks that make it possible.

Author : Kléber Bertrand Ghimire
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015050796120

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The Native Tourist by Kléber Bertrand Ghimire Pdf

* The first book to examine a major new factor in tourism --the rapid growth of tourism within developing countries and regions * Analyses the nature, magnitude and impact in different contexts and countries * Covers Asia, Africa and Latin America * Vital subject for development, economics and social policy * Published with the UN Research Institute for Social Development Domestic tourism in developing countries is rapidly outstripping international tourism and could soon involve 10 times the numbers. Despite the rapid growth, it has not been studied. This is the first book to examine the numbers involved, their profile, behavior, impacts and the relevant policy responses. The volume looks at the impacts of local mass tourism in various socioeconomic and environmental contexts and on diverse social groups. It provides analysis and overviews of seven of the main countries involved in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Author : Antonio Migu Nogues-Pedregal
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857246844

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Culture and Society in Tourism Contexts by Antonio Migu Nogues-Pedregal Pdf

This book strives to understand the social and cultural dynamics in Mediterranean tourist destinations through ethnographic examples from Greece, Spain, Egypt, France, Malta and Crete. It observes and examines the social, cultural and relational processes involved as migrants, tourists and new residents converge with locals in daily life.

Author : Luigi Fusco Girard,Peter Nijkamp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351946902

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Cultural Tourism and Sustainable Local Development by Luigi Fusco Girard,Peter Nijkamp Pdf

With the exponential rise in leisure mobility, tourism has increasingly become of great economic significance. Cultural heritage, such as museums, churches, historical landscapes, urban parks, and exhibitions attract many visitors and countries, regions and cities which house such historic-cultural amenities have seen increasingly large waves of tourists. While an avalanche of tourists has a positive impact on the local economy, such modern mass tourism also brings about negative externalities such as congestion, decline in quality of life, low access to cultural amenities and loss of local identity; to the extent that the sustainability conditions of a locality might be endangered. This tourism dilemma is particularly pronounced in cities with a rich cultural past, such as Venice, Naples and Amsterdam. Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars from North America and Europe, this book examines the interface of local cultural resources and modern mass tourism from a sustainability perspective. It puts forward innovative methodologies and best case practice for future cultural conservation policies.

Author : Bill Bramwell
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1873150687

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Coastal Mass Tourism by Bill Bramwell Pdf

This text examines the development of mass tourism in coastal regions of Southern Europe, with implications for similar regions. It provides a critical assessment of attempts to make mass tourism resorts more sustainable, and the development of smaller-scale, alternative tourism products.

Author : Alan A. Lew,C. Michael Hall,Allan M. Williams
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118474488

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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism by Alan A. Lew,C. Michael Hall,Allan M. Williams Pdf

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism presents a collection of readings that represent an essential and authoritative reference on the state-of-the-art of the interdisciplinary field of tourism studies. Presents a comprehensive and critical overview of tourism studies across the social sciences Introduces emerging topics and reassesses key themes in tourism studies in the light of recent developments Includes 50 newly commissioned essays by leading experts in the social sciences from around the world Contains cutting-edge perspectives on topics that include tourism’s role in globalization, sustainable tourism, and the state’s role in tourism development Sets an agenda for future tourism research and includes a wealth of bibliographic references

Author : Anthony Carrigan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136833922

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Postcolonial Tourism by Anthony Carrigan Pdf

Carrigan here examines the aesthetic portrayal of tourism in postcolonial literatures. Looking at the cultural and ecological effects of mass tourism development in states that are still grappling with the legacies of 'western' colonialism, he argues that postcolonial writers provide blueprints toward sustainable tourism futures.

Author : Sylvie Guichard-Anguis,Okpyo Moon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134104833

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Japanese Tourism and Travel Culture by Sylvie Guichard-Anguis,Okpyo Moon Pdf

This book examines Japanese tourism and travel, both today and in the past, showing how over hundreds of years a distinct culture of travel developed, and exploring how this has permeated the perceptions and traditions of Japanese society. It considers the diverse dimensions of modern tourism including appropriation and consumption of history, nostalgia, identity, domesticated foreignness, and the search for authenticity and invention of tradition. Japanese people are one of the most widely travelling peoples in the world both historically and in contemporary times. What may be understood as incipient mass tourism started around the 17th century in various forms (including religious pilgrimages) long before it became a prevalent cultural phenomenon in the West. Within Asia, Japan has long remained the main tourist sending society since the beginning of the 20th century when it started colonising Asian countries. In 2005, some 17.8 million Japanese travelled overseas across Europe, Asia, the South Pacific and America. In recent times, however, tourist demands are fast growing in other Asian countries such as Korea and China. Japan is not only consuming other Asian societies and cultures, it is also being consumed by them in tourist contexts. This book considers the patterns of travelling of the Japanese, examining travel inside and outside the Japanese archipelago and how tourist demands inside influence and shape patterns of travel outside the country. Overall, this book draws important insights for understanding the phenomenon of tourism on the one hand and the nature of Japanese society and culture on the other.

Author : David Harrison
Publisher : CABI
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789245899

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Tourism, Tradition and Culture by David Harrison Pdf

David Harrison has contributed to the academic study of tourism over the last 30 years. This book brings together a collection of his published material that reflects the role played by tourism in 'development', both in societies emerging from Western colonialism and in societies previously part of the Soviet system. The overarching theme looks at how, promoted as a tool for development, tourism can lead to conflict between competing elites, but can also empower groups previously subject to constraint by traditional authorities. Tradition is intensely manipulatable and always reflects power relations. Such pressure on tradition is but one aspect of tourism's wider social impacts. This includes changes in economic and social structure, which, for many, constitute social problems that need to be addressed. At the same time, 'sustainability', though apparently a worthy aim, can be a problematic concept, especially when applied to 'traditional' cultures, and may conflict with such ideals as egalitarianism.