Tourism Visual Culture

by Burns, Peter M.; Palmer, Cathy; Lester, Jo-Anne

• ISBN13: 9781845936099
• ISBN10: 1845936094
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-07-31
• Publisher: Cab Intl

Summary

Tourism is an essentially visual experience: we leave our homes so as to travel to see places, thus adding to our personal knowledge about, and experience of, the world. The study of tourism as a complex social phenomenon, beyond simply business, is increasing in importance, and by providing an examination of perceptions of culture and society in tourism destinations through the tourist's eyes, this book discusses how destinations were, and are, created and perceived through the 'lens' of the tourist's gaze. It is essential reading for researchers and students in tourism and related subjects.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Author Biographies	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Introduction	p. xv
The Changing Tourist Gaze in India's Hill Stations: Vignettes from the Early 19th Century to the Present	p. 1
'Memory Tourism' and Commodification of Nostalgia	p. 23
Edward Hopper: Glancing at Gaze with a Wink at Tourism	p. 43
A 'Vice Among Tourists'? Trans-national Narratives of the Irish Landscape, 1886-1914	p. 52
Decolonizing the Gaze: at Uluru (Ayers Rock)	p. 64
Tracking the (Tourists') Gaze: Using Technology in Visual Analysis of Identificational Strategies	p. 76
Gazing at the Gallant Gurkha: Glimpsing Nepalese Society	p. 90
In the Eye of the Beholder? Tourism and the Activist Academic	p. 98
Gazes on Levanto: a Case Study on How Local Identity Could Become Part of the Touristic Supply	p. 107
Image, Construction and Representation in Tourism Promotion and Heritage Management	p. 124
Tourist Immersion or Tourist Gaze: the Backpacker Experience	p. 139
Receiving and Shaping the Tourist Appraising Gaze: the Lived Experience of Reception Work in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry	p. 150
Seeing the Sites: Tourism as Perceptual Experience	p. 165
Goods of Desire: Visual and Other Aspects of Western Exoticism in Postcolonial Hong Kong	p. 170
Mauritanian Guestbook: Shaping Culture while Displaying it	p. 181
Transforming Taste(s) into Sights: Gazing and Grazing with Television's Culinary Tourists	p. 191
World in One City: Surrealist Geography and Time-Space Compression in Alex Cox's Liverpool	p. 200
Index	p. 217
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