Tourism, Ethnic Diversity And The City

by Rath; Jan

• ISBN13: 9780415333900
• ISBN10: 0415333903
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-08
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Ethnic diversity has become a crucial component of the cultural capital of post-industrial cities. More and more travellers, leisure seekers and others in cosmopolitan cities indulge in ethno-cultural events and festivals and gravitate to the centers of immigrant ethnic commerce. In so doing, these events, festivals and centers enhance the livability, fuel the job machine and foster the branding of these cities. Tourism, Ethnicity and the Cityentails an exploration of manifestations of cultural diversity by immigrant ethnic groups in cosmopolitan cities, and deals with the question of how these cultural manifestations are transformed into a vehicle for socio-economic development to the advantage of both immigrants and the city at large. The primary focus of this book is the role of immigrant entrepreneurs and workers in the emerging ethnic tourist industry as well as their interaction with public, private and civil society actors in this sector. As the opportunities of the immigrant touristindustry are contingent on national and local circumstances, the chapters cover different cities in different countries. The book is situated at the crossroads of two fields of research, namely ethnic entrepreneurship and urban tourism. By addressing this problem from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective, the book aims at a much more thorough understanding of the structural dynamics of commercial manifestations of cultural diversity by immigrants, as well as their impact on immigrants' connection to the knowledge economy and urban socio-economic development in general.

Table of Contents

Tourism, migration and place advantage in the global cultural economy

Immigrant entrepreneurs

Making the new economy: Immigrant entrepreneurs and emerging transnational networks of international education and tourism in Seoul and Vancouver

Urban boosterism, tourism and ethnic minority enterprise in Birmingham

Ethnic precincts as contradictory tourist spaces

Immigrant workers

Caterers of the consumed metropolis: Ethnicized tourism and entertainment labourscapes in

Immigrants, tourists and the metropolitan landscape: Producing the metropolis of consumption in Orlando

Ethnic diversity in urban place promotion

Ethnic heritage tourism and globalâ"local connections in New Orleans

Tourism and New York's ethnic diversity: An underutilized resource?

Selling Miami: Tourism promotion and immigrant neighbourhoods in the Capital of Latin America

Building a market of ethnic references: Activism and diversity in multicultural settings in

Tourists 'R' Us: Immigrants, ethnic tourism and the marketing of metropolitan

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