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Cultures of Mass Tourism

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Cultures of Mass Tourism

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Doing the Mediterranean in the Age of Banal Mobilities

Cultures of Mass Tourism

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Cultures of Mass Tourism book

Doing the Mediterranean in the Age of Banal Mobilities
ByPau Obrador Pons, Mike Crang
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2009
eBook Published 18 May 2016
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315575568
Pages 192
eBook ISBN 9781315575568
Subjects Geography, Humanities, Social Sciences, Tourism, Hospitality and Events
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Pons, P.O. (2009). Cultures of Mass Tourism: Doing the Mediterranean in the Age of Banal Mobilities (M. Crang, Ed.) (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315575568

ABSTRACT

With more than 230 million international tourists a year, the Mediterranean region is the largest tourist destination in the world. This book outlines that its economic importance is matched by its significance as a cultural and aesthetic phenomenon. Through a series of ethnographic insights into some of the key sites of mass Mediterranean tourism, it focuses on package tourists' experiences of the serial, banal and depthless spaces that are mushrooming along the coast and the enchantments, dissolutions and dreams that saturate them. Moving away from the notion of authentic places corrupted by mass tourism, the book shows how new forms and spaces are made and remade by the mobilities and performances of locals, workers and tourists. Finally, the book looks at the complex materialities of mass tourism and the many networks that make it possible.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|20 pages

Introduction: Taking Mediterranean Tourists Seriously

ByPau Obrador Pons, Mike Crang, Penny Travlou

chapter 2|32 pages

Morocco: Restaging Colonialism for the Masses

ByClaudio Minca, Rachele Borghi

chapter 3|22 pages

Banal Tourism? Between Cosmopolitanism and Orientalism

ByMichael Haldrup

chapter 4|16 pages

The Island That Was Not There: Producing Corelli’s Island, Staging Kefalonia

ByPau Obrador Pons, Mike Crang

chapter 5|20 pages

The Mediterranean Pool: Cultivating Hospitality in the Coastal Hotel

ByPau Obrador Pons

chapter 6|18 pages

‘De Veraneo en la Playa’: Belonging and the Familiar in Mediterranean Mass Tourism

ByPau Obrador Pons, Mike Crang

chapter 7|14 pages

Hosts and Guests, Guests and Hosts: British Residential Tourism in the Costa del Sol

ByPau Obrador Pons, Mike Crang

chapter 8|14 pages

Mobile Practice and Youth Tourism

ByDan Knox

chapter 9|18 pages

Corrupted Seas: The Mediterranean in the Age of Mass Mobility

ByPau Obrador Pons, Mike Crang, Penny Travlou
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