Summary
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Tourist Studies developed as a sub-branch of older disciplines in the social sciences, such as anthropology, sociology and economics, and newer applied fields of study in hospitality management, civil rights and transport studies. This Handbook is a sign of the maturity of the field. It provides an essential resource for teachers and students to determine the roots, key issues, and agenda of Tourism Studies.
Theme Parks and the Representation of Culture and Nature: The Consumer Aesthetics of Presentation and Performance
Theme Parks and the Representation of Culture and Nature: The Consumer Aesthetics of Presentation and Performance
Introduction
According to The Routledge Encyclopedia of Tourism (Pearce, in Jafari, 2000: 578), theme parks are highly developed, capital intensive, self-centralized recreational spaces, which contain a pre-designated mix of entertainment facilities, specialty food outlets, and attractions-of-specific interest which are somehow arranged and organized around a “theme” or “unifying idea” which has been deliberately taken from the history, the heritage, or the nature which (normally, but not always!) pertains to the immediate region within which that park is located. While all of these theme parks tend to be very large in scale, some of them are highly ...
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