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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.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2004.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.