Channel View Publications: 585 books
Re-Investing Authenticity
Tourism, Place and Emotions
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2010
From the highly influential concept of ‘staged authenticity’ discussed by Dean MacCannell, to the general claim of longing for authenticity on behalf of all Western consumers, made by Joseph Pine and James Gilmore, it is obvious that the concept of authenticity is still worth considering. This...
The British on Holiday
Charter Tourism, Identity and Consumption
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
This book is the only in-depth ethnographic study of British charter tourists. It is based on several months of participant observation of British charter tourists on holiday in Palmanova and Magaluf on the Mediterranean Island of Mallorca. With a focus on space, the body, and food and drink practices,...
Health and Wellness Tourism
Spas and Hot Springs
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2009
Geothermal springs constitute a major tourism resource, providing spectacular settings, recreation facilities, a recognised value in treatments beneficial for health and wellness, a sense of heritage and adventure, and links with the natural environment. Health and wellness tourism accounts for a...
Tourism and the Power of Otherness
Seductions of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
This book explores the paradoxes of Self–Other relations in the field of tourism. It particularly focuses on the 'power' of different forms of 'Otherness' to seduce and to disrupt, and, eventually, also to renew the social and cosmological orders of 'modern' culture and everyday life. Drawing on...
Resorts and Ports
European Seaside Towns since 1700
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Histories of seaports and coastal resorts have usually been kept in separate compartments. This book brings them together and looks at how resort development affected historic ports during the rise and development of the seaside holiday in Europe from the 18th century to the 20th, and what the attributes...
Tourists and Travellers
Women's Non-fictional Writing about Scotland, 1770-1830
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, travel and tourism in Scotland changed radically, from a time when there were very few travellers and no provision for those that there were, through to Scotland’s emergence as a fully fledged tourist destination with the necessary physical and economic...
Managing Coastal Tourism Resorts
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2007
The vast majority of existing academic research of coastal tourism resort management has been undertaken in northern and southern Europe at the expense of a wider global consideration. This book aims to address this deficit and develop a global perspective on the management issues facing coastal resorts....
by Dr. Brent W. Ritchie
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
Tourism destinations and businesses are becoming increasingly prone to the impacts of crises and disasters due to global environmental change and security risks. This is the first research based book that provides a strategic approach to understanding the nature of tourism crises and disasters before...
Tourism Marketing
A Collaborative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2004
This innovative and original book provides valuable insights into the interorganisational dynamics of collaboration in tourism marketing. Specific attention is given to global airline alliances, international hotel consortia, and destination collaboration between nations. The book begins by providing...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Sugar as a global commodity has shaped our world, impacting cultures and influencing cuisine. The heritage of sugar is investigated in the context of globalization and tourism development. Facets of the sugar story include colonization, enslavement, decolonization and postcolonial tourism while cultural...
Tourism and Australian Beach Cultures
Revealing Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
This book explores the ever-changing interconnections between bodies, subjectivities, space, beach cultures and tourism, engaging with the geographies of the beach: its makings, boundaries and meanings for the West. Drawing on feminist scholarship, Christine Metusela and Gordon Waitt explore the reciprocal...
Festival Places
Revitalising Rural Australia
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Festivals have burgeoned in rural areas, revitalising old traditions and inventing new reasons to celebrate. How do festivals contribute to tourism, community and a rural sense of belonging? What are their cultural, environmental and economic dimensions? This book answers such questions - featuring...
Tourism in China
Destinations, Planning and Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
This book offers an in-depth understanding of tourism development and destination planning in China's transitional economy. It is a unique collaboration between editors and contributors to present issues in current Chinese tourism research to Western colleagues. The influences informing the book range...
Constructing Cultural Tourism
John Ruskin and the Tourist Gaze
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
This book is an interdisciplinary collaboration between a literary critic and cultural historian, which examines and recovers a radical and still urgent challenge to the industrialisation of cultural tourism from the work of John Ruskin. Ruskin exerted a formative influence on the definition and development...