ABSTRACT
Providing a unique analysis of current multidisciplinary research on the complex relationships between tourism and the imaginaries of tourist destinations, this book traces the links between tourism imaginaries and their religious (heaven) and political (utopia) antecedents. The substantive chapters are organised into three main thematic sections, the first explores the touristic production and consumption of place imaginaries, the second analyses the way places are practiced through imaginaries and the role imaginaries play in the tourist experience and the final section explores the way images and the media participate in the creation of tourism imaginaries.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|78 pages
Producing / Consuming Place Imaginaries
chapter 3|15 pages
Reinventing and Reshaping Gaudí
chapter 4|17 pages
“What Happens in Vegas Doesn't Stay in Vegas”
part II|84 pages
Tourism Practices and the Imaginary
chapter 7|17 pages
Fair Tourism and the “Authentic” Encounter
chapter 9|17 pages
Holidaying in Japan, Falling in Love with Japan
part III|86 pages
Media and Imaginaries, Reflexivity and Performativity