Jonathan (Hrsg.) Skinner

Great Expectations

Imagination and Anticipation in Tourism

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The negotiation of expectations in tourism is a complex and dynamic process - one that is central to the imagination of cultural difference. Expectations not only affect the lives and experiences of tourists, but also their hosts, and play an important part in the success or failure of the overall tourism experience. It is for this reason, the authors argue, that special attention should be given to how expectations constitute and sustain tourism. The case studies presented here explore what fuels the desires to visit particular places, to what degree expectations inform the experience of the place, and the frequent disjunctions between tour… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-85745-277-1
EAN: 9780857452771
Produktnummer: 23143810
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 232 S.
Masse: H23.2 cm x B16.3 cm x D1.6 cm 430 g
Gewicht: 430
Sonstiges: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Über den Autor

Dimitrios Theodossopoulos is a Reader at the University of Kent. He is the author of Troubles with Turtles: Cultural Understandings of the Environment on a Greek Island (Berghahn 2003), and editor of When Greeks Think about Turks: The View from Anthropology (Routledge 2006) and United in Discontent: Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism and Globalization (Berghahn Books 2009).