Tourism, Diasporas and Space

by Coles; Tim

• ISBN13: 9780415311243
• ISBN10: 0415311241
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-07-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In a vibrant inter-disciplinary collection of essays from leading scholars in the field,Tourism, Diasporas and Spaceprovides a unique navigation of the nature of the connections between tourism and diasporic populations and networks. The book introduces the main features and constructs of diasporas, and explores their implications for the consumption, production, and practices of tourism. Three sets of mutually reinforcing relationships are explored: experiences of diaspora tourists, the settings and spaces of diaspora tourism, and the production of diaspora tourism. Examples are drawn from a wide spectrum of diasporic groups including the Chinese, Jewish, Southeast Asian, Croatian, Dutch, and Welsh.

Author Biography

Tim Coles is Lecturer in Human Geography and University Business Research Fellow at the University of Exeter Dallen J. Timothy is Associate Professor at Arizona State University and Visiting Professor of Heritage Tourism at the University of Sunderland

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
List of contributors	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
`My field is the world': conceptualizing diasporas, travel and tourism	1	(30)
Tim Coles
Dallen J. Timothy
PART I Diasporic experiences of tourism	31	(120)
Tourism and third space populations: the restless motion of diaspora peoples	33	(17)
Keith Hollinshead
Conceptualizing return visits: a transnational perspective	50	(12)
David Timothy Duval
Tourism, racism and the UK Afro-Caribbean diaspora	62	(16)
Marcus L. Stephenson
Linking diasporas and tourism: transnational mobilities of Pacific Islanders resident in New Zealand	78	(17)
C. Michael Hall
David Timothy Duval
Jewish past as a `foreign country': the travel experiences of American Jews	95	(16)
Dimitri Ioannides
Mara Cohen Ioannides
American children of the African diaspora: journeys to the motherland	111	(13)
Dallen J. Timothy
Victor B. Teye
Preparation, simulation and the creation of community: Exodus and the case of diaspora education tourism	124	(15)
Erik H. Cohen
`To stand in the shoes of my ancestors': tourism and genealogy	139	(12)
Kevin Meethan
PART II Settings and spaces for diaspora tourism	151	(64)
The `isle of home' is always on your mind: subjectivity and space at Ellis Island Immigration Museum	153	(19)
Joanne Maddern
The culture of tourism in the diaspora: the case of the Vietnamese community in Australia	172	(16)
Thu-Huong Nguyen
Brian King
Mobilizing Hrvatsko: tourism and politics in the Croatian diaspora	188	(14)
Sean Carter
Sojourners, guanxi and clan associations: social capital and overseas Chinese tourism to China	202	(13)
Alan A. Lew
Alan Wong
PART III Mobilizing diasporas for tourism	215	(83)
Diaspora, cultural capital and the production of tourism: lessons from enticing Jewish-Americans to Germany	217	(16)
Tim Coles
Mae'n Bryd I ddod Adref--It's Time to Come Home: exploring the contested emotional geographies of Wales	233	(13)
Nigel Morgan
Annette Pritchard
India and the ambivalences of diaspora tourism	246	(15)
Kevin Hannam
Reinventing Tulip Time: evolving diasporic Dutch heritage celebration in Holland (Michigan)	261	(18)
Deborah Che
Selling diaspora: producing and segmenting the Jewish diaspora tourism market	279	(12)
Noga Collins-Kreiner
Dan Olsen
Tourism and diasporas: current issues and future opportunities	291	(7)
Dallen J. Timothy
Tim Coles
Index	298