Landscape Leisure And Tourism

Author : Cara Aitchison,Nicola E. MacLeod,Nicola E Macleod,Stephen J. Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134688661

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Leisure and Tourism Landscapes by Cara Aitchison,Nicola E. MacLeod,Nicola E Macleod,Stephen J. Shaw Pdf

Increasingly significant as mediators of spatial identity and meaning, leisure, tourism, culture and heritage are only now beginning to be located within the rapidly evolving discourses of poststructuralist geographies. Exploring the influence of leisure and tourism on the production, representation and consumption of landscape, the first half of this important book focuses on different ways of ‘seeing’ or representing landscape, whereas the second half examines different forms of productive consumption in leisure and tourism. Both symbolic and material spaces of leisure and tourism are also examined in relation to urban and rural landscapes, heritage landscapes, gendered landscapes, and landscapes of sexuality and desire. With a multidisciplinary approach and a strong theoretical content which builds on poststructuralist theories, this is undoubtedly an important addition to literature in the field.

Author : Henk de Haan
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Human beings
ISBN : 9789059722996

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Landscape, Leisure and Tourism by Henk de Haan Pdf

Author : S. Gammon,S. Elkington
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781137428530

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Landscapes of Leisure by S. Gammon,S. Elkington Pdf

This volume aims to map out the complex relationships leisure has with notions of place and space in contemporary life. Illustrating the transdisciplinarity of this key feature of leisure studies, it explores how leisure places and spaces affect personal, social and collective identities.

Author : Jenny T. Chio
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295805061

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A Landscape of Travel by Jenny T. Chio Pdf

While the number of domestic leisure travelers has increased dramatically in reform-era China, the persistent gap between urban and rural living standards attests to ongoing social, economic, and political inequalities. The state has widely touted tourism for its potential to bring wealth and modernity to rural ethnic minority communities, but the policies underlying the development of tourism obscure some complicated realities. In tourism, after all, one person’s leisure is another person’s labor. A Landscape of Travel investigates the contested meanings and unintended consequences of tourism for those people whose lives and livelihoods are most at stake in China’s rural ethnic tourism industry: the residents of village destinations. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Ping’an (a Zhuang village in Guangxi) and Upper Jidao (a Miao village in Guizhou), Jenny Chio analyzes the myriad challenges and possibilities confronted by villagers who are called upon to do the work of tourism. She addresses the shifting significance of migration and rural mobility, the visual politics of tourist photography, and the effects of touristic desires for “exotic difference” on village social relations. In this way, Chio illuminates the contemporary regimes of labor and leisure and the changing imagination of what it means to be rural, ethnic, and modern in China today.

Author : Mark Hendriks,Hans Venema,Annika van Dijk
Publisher : 010 Publishers
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture and tourism
ISBN : 9789064506505

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Greetings from Europe by Mark Hendriks,Hans Venema,Annika van Dijk Pdf

This book presents the resulting design proposals.

Author : Giovanni Maciocco,Silvia Serreli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789048124190

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Enhancing the City. by Giovanni Maciocco,Silvia Serreli Pdf

Departing from a survey on the post-modern landscapes of tourism, this book explores the transformations the city has undergone and the way it has become a simulacrum offered to tourists, spectacularised with the aim of increasing its capacity for attraction. The experiences dealt with in the papers of authors belonging to different disciplinary fields, emphasise the city’s tendencies to create “stage-set contexts” of the private type, be it historic quarters, theme parks or hypermarkets. Issues like aestheticisation, thematisation and genericity are dealt with, conceptual categories that highlight the weak resistance cities put up against the rules of the leisure industry and, more generally speaking, the consumer economy. The book inquires into the capacity of the urban and territorial project to construct a perspective for a public dimension of space. This is linked with ethical action of the project involving an active relationship with places and a capacity to understand the dynamics of different urban populations. In this sense capacity for innovation and creativity can contribute to transforming “islands” of leisure into places of the city and consumers into citizens.

Author : Suzanne Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Forest policy
ISBN : MINN:31951D02373169T

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Leisure Landscapes by Suzanne Martin Pdf

Author : Dr Patrick Laviolette
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781409488897

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Extreme Landscapes of Leisure by Dr Patrick Laviolette Pdf

In recent years, there has been an increased engagement throughout the social sciences with the study of extreme places and practices. Dangerous games and adventure tours have shifted from being marginal, exotic or mad to being more than merely acceptable. They are now exemplary, mainstream even: there are a variety of new types, increasing numbers of people are doing them and they are being appropriated and have infiltrated more and more contexts. This book argues that hazardous sports and adventure tourism have become rather paradoxical. As a set of activities where players and holidaymakers are closer to death or danger than they would otherwise be, they are the complete opposite of normal games or vacations. Adventure sports and tours reverse the general definition of a holiday as being an escape from the seriousness of everyday life, as in most cases, they are innately serious, requiring as they do 'life or death' decision-making. Beginning with the rise in colonial explorations and moving on to consider the Dangerous Sports Club of Oxford, this book examines the increasing phenomena of adventure sports such as bungy jumping, cliff jumping or 'tomb-stoning', surfing and parkour within a framework of positive risk. It explores how certain assumptions about knowledge, agency, the body and nature are beginning to coalesce around newly developing spheres of social relations. Additionally, extreme games have become activities that are germane to the dawning of green social thought and so the book also addresses issues that deal with the intimate connections that exist between pleasure and the moral responsibility towards the environment.

Author : C. Michael Hall,Stephen J. Page
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134308873

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The Geography of Tourism and Recreation by C. Michael Hall,Stephen J. Page Pdf

Highlighting the inter-relationships between tourism, leisure and recreation, this revised edition introduces growing theoretical debates (from geography and the wider social science arena) to assess how new conceptualizations of tourism and leisure are advancing knowledge and understanding. Underpinning this book is the concept of the evolving nature of geography and social science, and their role in leading the analysis of the leisure phenomenon as a living subject, which has recently seen significant contributions from the new cultural geographies of consumption and leisure. These developments are clearly introduced, giving readers new to the subject area bite-sized introductions to key issues. Whilst this third edition retains the successful format and structure of previous editions, making it attractive and user-friendly to students without being overwhelming, it is completely revised and redeveloped to accommodate new case studies, insights, summary points and learning objectives. It is the only book to systematically compare and contrast in a spatial context, tourism and recreation in relation to leisure time, and its encyclopaedic reference section provides an excellent resource for new students. Retaining a global focus, this edition now features a greater emphasis on North America, and investigates the importance of less developed countries and the critical issues surrounding inequality, exploitation, underdevelopment and globalization as powerful forces affecting tourism and leisure.

Author : Garrett Nagle
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0174447051

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Tourism, Leisure and Recreation by Garrett Nagle Pdf

Offers comprehensive and in depth coverage of the topic for AS and A Level. The book is also a useful resource for GNVQ Tourism and Leisure courses.

Author : Greg Ringer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134824786

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Destinations by Greg Ringer Pdf

Drawing on selected research from Europe, Southeast Asia, the Pacific and North America, this book combines perspectives in human geography and tourism to present cultural landscapes of tourist destinations as socially constructed.

Author : Hazel Andrews,Les Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415668842

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Liminal Landscapes by Hazel Andrews,Les Roberts Pdf

Liminal Landscapes brings together variety of new and emerging methodological approaches of liminality from varying disciplines to explore new theoretical perspectives on mobility, space and socio-cultural experience. By doing so, it offers new insight into contemporary questions about technology, surveillance, power, the city, and post-industrial modernity, within the context of tourism and mobility. The book brings together recent research from scholars with international reputations in the fields of tourism, mobility, landscape and place, alongside the work of emergent scholars who are developing new insights and perspectives in this area.

Author : David Crouch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781135115258

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Leisure/Tourism Geographies by David Crouch Pdf

Leisure and Tourism Geographies considers leisure/tourism as an encounter. An encounter that exists between people, between people and space and between people and their expectations, experiences and desires. The contributors explore diverse aspects of leisure and tourism, ranging from the methodologies behind leisure practices to detailed case studies including: *Disneyland, Paris *tourism in sacred landscapes *leisure practices in cyberspace *leisure and yachting *use of recreational/holiday cottages *National Parks, local parks and gardens Presenting an exciting mix of attitudes and ideas concerning leisure and tourism, this book documents a lively debate, placing geography at its centre.

Author : Hazel Andrews,Les Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136337451

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Liminal Landscapes by Hazel Andrews,Les Roberts Pdf

Ideas and concepts of liminality have long shaped debates around the uses and practices of space in constructions of identity, particularly in relation to different forms of travel such as tourism, migration and pilgrimage, and the social, cultural and experiential landscapes associated with these and other mobilities. The ritual, performative and embodied geographies of borderzones, non-places, transitional spaces, or ‘spaces in-between’ are often discussed in terms of the liminal, yet there have been few attempts to problematize the concept, or to rethink how ideas of the liminal might find critical resonance with contemporary developments in the study of place, space and mobility. Liminal Landscapes fills this void by bringing together variety of new and emerging methodological approaches of liminality from varying disciplines to explore new theoretical perspectives on mobility, space and socio-cultural experience. By doing so, it offers new insight into contemporary questions about technology, surveillance, power, the city, and post-industrial modernity within the context of tourism and mobility. The book draws on a wide range of disciplinary approaches, including social anthropology, cultural geography, film, media and cultural studies, art and visual culture, and tourism studies. It brings together recent research from scholars with international reputations in the fields of tourism, mobility, landscape and place, alongside the work of emergent scholars who are developing new insights and perspectives in this area. This timely intervention is the first collection to offer an interdisciplinary account of the intersection between liminality and landscape in terms of space, place and identity. It therefore charts new directions in the study of liminal spaces and mobility practices and will be valuable reading for range of students, researchers and academics interested in this field.

Author : Council of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789287184580

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Landscape dimensions by Council of Europe Pdf

As a key element of individual and social well-being and quality of life, landscape plays an important part in human fulfilment and in reinforcement of European identity. Adopted under the auspices of the Council of Europe, the European Landscape Convention aims to promote the protection, management and planning of landscapes, and to organise international co-operation in this field. It applies to the entire territory of the contracting parties and covers natural, rural, urban and peri-urban areas. It concerns landscapes considered outstanding, as well as everyday or degraded areas. Certain “dimensions” of the landscape are presented in this publication, which addresses key issues for its future, including democracy, education, economy, leisure and advertising. Landscape management processes – and even the term “landscape” itself – are also analysed. This book forms part of a process of reflection on the major themes concerning the living environment.