Tourism Mobilities: Places to Play, Places in Play

by Sheller,Mimi

• ISBN13: 9780415338790
• ISBN10: 0415338794
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-08-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Through a fascinating range of case-studies drawn from across the world, this innovative book shows how places to play are also places in play: made and remade by the mobilities and performances of tourists and workers, images and heritage, the latest fashions and the newest diseases. Criss-crossed by various mobilities and performances, places are shown to "move" as they are put into play in relation to other places. Section One focuses on the performance of paradise in the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, in "ecotourism" sites and on beaches across the world. Section Two turns the performance of global heritage from quaint English spa-towns and Viking heritage centers, to the spiritual sublime of Inca ruins and the Taj Mahal, and the international travels of art exhibitions. Section Three concerns the remaking of global cities: Hong Kong, Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, and the "high-rise" suburbs of post-millennial Europe. The last section takes an unpredictable tour of round-the-world web-sites, Dubai'sPalm Island, and the dark worlds of nuclear tourism and deadly tourism. Tourism itself is thus in motion, becoming less predictable as changing processes of leisure, authenticity and risk re-shaping global mobilities.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	viii
Notes on contributors	ix
Preface	xii
Places to play, places in play	1	(10)
Mimi Sheller
John Urry
PART 1 Performing paradise	11	(42)
Demobilizing and remobilizing Caribbean paradise	13	(9)
Mimi Sheller
Islands in the sun: Cyprus	22	(10)
Richard Sharpley
Ecotourists on the beach	32	(12)
Rosaleen Duffy
Surfing: global space or dwelling in the waves?	44	(9)
Rob Shields
PART 2 Performances of global heritage	53	(64)
Little England's global conference centre: Harrogate	55	(12)
Viv Cuthill
Bodies, spirits, and Incas: performing Machu Picchu	67	(11)
Alexandra Arellano
On the track of the Vikings	78	(12)
Jorgen Ole Baerenholdt
Michael Haldrup
Art exhibitions travel the world	90	(13)
Chia-Ling Lai
Reconstituting the Taj Mahal: tourist flows and glocalization	103	(14)
Tim Edensor
PART 3 Remaking playful places	117	(50)
The paradox of a tourist centre: Hong Kong as a site of play and a place of fear	119	(12)
Ngai-Ling Sum
Mei-Chi So
Barcelona's games: the Olympics, urban design, and global tourism	131	(12)
Monica Degen
Tourists in the concrete desert	143	(12)
Tue Halgreen
Favela tours: indistinct and mapless representations of the real in Rio de Janeiro	155	(12)
Beatriz Jaguaribe
Kevin Hetherington
PART 4 New playful places	167	(49)
Playing online and between the lines: round-the-world websites as virtual places to play	169	(12)
Jennie Germann Molz
`Let's build a palm island!': playfulness in complex times	181	(11)
Mattias Junemo
Atomica world: the place of nuclear tourism	192	(13)
Kathleen Sullivan
Death in Venice	205	(11)
John Urry
Bibliography	216	(17)
Index	233