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This is a critical introduction to the relations between tourism, tourists, and tourism spaces. It fuses economic and cultural perspectives to explain how tourism is dependent on place and space, while at the same time as defining those places and spaces. Examining different levels of scale - from local to global - Tourism and Tourism Spaces is informed by the discussion of three key processes: - production and consumption of tourist spaces - consumption and commodification of tourist experiences - construction and reconstruction of tourist spaces Each chapter engages with different theoretical perspectives; is illustrated with comparative examples and case studies; uses tables, boxes and figures throughout; and concludes with a summary. An integrated and systematic review of a range of theoretical positions - that integrates economic and cultural - Tourism and Tourism Spaces will be a key resource for students of geography, sociology, management studies, hospitality studies, and leisure studies.
Landscapes of Pleasure: The Construction of New Tourism Spaces and Places
Landscapes of Pleasure: The Construction of New Tourism Spaces and Places
The Development of Diverse Tourism Spaces
Tourism spaces are dynamic in that they are constantly being created, abandoned and re-created. Some commentators have viewed such processes via a product life-cycle model (see Chapter 8) and, as we observed in the previous chapter, older coastal resorts have passed through a series of life stages. The early resorts were products of industrialization and related developments in mass consumption – the consequences of modernity. Subsequently, as we have shown, very different resorts have been created in new destinations in the context of postmodernity. Of equal importance, such processes have led to the creation of new and diverse tourism ...
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