Resort Spatiality : Reimagining Sites of Mass Tourism Hardback
by Zelmarie Cantillon
Part of the New Directions in Tourism Analysis series
Hardback
Description
This book theorises resorts as distinct kinds of urban milieux, capturing the complexity of destinations famous for ‘sun, sand and sex’ mass tourism.
Drawing on qualitative field research (participant observation, interviews and photography), the book discusses examples from six international resort destinations spread across four continents: the Gold Coast, Australia; Phuket and Koh Phangan, Thailand; Cancún, Mexico; Miami, USA; and Ibiza, Spain. The book reviews the material and symbolic production of lived spaces in these resorts, considering the mutually constitutive, mutually transformative relations between their spatial formations, built environments, popular imaginaries, representations, narratives of identity, rhythms, and the experiences and practices of both tourists and locals.
In doing so, it argues for more nuanced ways of conceptualising tourism, globalisation and spatiality, reimagining how these phenomena unfold in lived spaces. Taking a cultural studies approach to urban analysis, the book demonstrates the value in embracing complexity, fluidity, partiality and uncertainty.
It will be of interest to students and researchers of tourism, geography, cultural studies, development studies, anthropology and sociology.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:206 pages, 5 Tables, black and white; 6 Line drawings, black and white; 34 Halftones, black and whit
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:07/11/2018
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- ISBN:9781138541740
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:206 pages, 5 Tables, black and white; 6 Line drawings, black and white; 34 Halftones, black and whit
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:07/11/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781138541740
