Performing Tourist Places (New Directions in Tourism Analysis)

Price 105.73 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9780754638384


Pages 167

Year of production 2004

This book looks at the making and the consuming of places in the contemporary world. Illustrated through various case-studies from Denmark, it considers how places, performances and peoples intersect. It examines the fascinating circumstances through which visitors to a place, in part, produce that place through their performances. Places are intertwined with people through various systems that generate and reproduce performances in and of that place. These systems comprise networks of "hosts, guests, buildings, objects and machines" that contingently realize particular performances of specific places. The studies featured here develop an exciting "new mobility" paradigm emerging within the social sciences.