Wearing, Stephen

Tourist cultures : identity, place and the traveller / Stephen Wearing, Deborah Stevenson and Tamara Young - Los Angeles : SAGE, 2010. - vi, 169 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introducing the Cultures of Tourism -- Understanding Tourism -- From Flaneur to Choraster? -- Tourism, Experience and Space -- The Structure of Tourist Cultures -- Tourist Selves -- The Tourist Experience -- Functions and Formulations -- Typologies of Experience -- Authenticities and Alternatives -- Tourism and Identity -- Time to Escape -- Identity and the Traveller Self -- Stories and Narratives -- Encountering the Other -- (Inter)Cultural Dominance -- Hosts and Guests -- Gender, Sex and Tourism -- Tourist Spaces -- The Landscapes of Tourism -- Tourist Cultures, Tourist Space -- Touring Nature -- Cityscapes of Travel -- Global Tourism, Local Cultures -- Valuing the Local -- Backpackers and Global Wanderers -- Hybrid Travel Cultures -- Tourism, Space and Representation -- Image, .Memory and Imagination -- Post-Tourism and Beyond -- The 'Thirdspace' of the Traveller Self -- Conclusion. 1. Pt. I. 2. 3. 4. Pt. II. 5. 6. 7. 8.

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