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Tourism mobilities : places to play, places in play /

This book shows how a diverse array of places around the world are being produced and made fit for tourist consumption. It analyzes tourist performances such as eating, shopping, waling, photographing and clubbing.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sheller, Mimi (Editor ), Urry, John (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Places to play, places in play / Mimi Sheller and John Urry
  • Demobilizing and remobilizing Caribbean paradise / Mimi Sheller
  • Islands in the sun : Cyprus / Richard Sharpley
  • Ecotourists on the beach / Rosaleen Duffy
  • Surfing : global space or dwelling in the waves? / Rob Shields
  • Little England's global conference centre : Harrogate / Viv Cuthill
  • Bodies, spirits and Incas : performing Machu Picchu / Alexandra Arellano
  • On the track of the Vikings / Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt and Michael Haldrup
  • Art exhibitions travel the world / Chia-Ling Lai
  • Reconstituting the Taj Mahal : tourist flows and glocalisation / Tim Edensor
  • The paradox of a tourist centre : Hong Kong as a site of play and a place of feat / Ngai-Ling Sum with Mei-Chi So
  • Barcelona's games : the Olympics, urban design and global tourism / Monica Degen
  • Tourists in the concrete desert / Tue Halgreen
  • Favela tours : indistinct and mapless representations of the real in Rio De Janeiro / Beatriz Jaguaribe and Kevin Hetherington
  • Playing online and between the lines : round-the-world websites as virtual places to play / Jennie Germann Molz
  • 'Let's build a palm island!' : playfulness in complex times / Mattias Junemo
  • Atomica world : the place of nuclear tourism / Kathleen Sullivan
  • Death in Venice / John Urry.