Cultures of Mass Tourism
Doing the Mediterranean in the Age of Banal Mobilities
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 a…
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Weitere Autoren: Crang, Mike (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-317-15565-2
- EAN: 9781317155652
- Produktnummer: 20176891
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 8'574 KB
Über den Autor
Dr Pau Obrador Pons is a lecturer in geography at the University of Sunderland, Dr Mike Crang is Reader in the Department of Geography, Durham University. and Dr Penny Travlou is a Research Fellow in the OPENspace Research Centre at Edinburgh College of Arts, UK.
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