David Crouch, Rhona Jackson, Felix Thompson
Routledge
Published
June 16, 2005
Reference
- 252 Pages
- 3 B/W Illustrations
ISBN 9780415326261 - CAT# RU27144
Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
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Tourism studies and media studies both address key issues about how we perceive the world. They raise acute questions about how we relate local knowledge and immediate experience to wider global processes, and they both play a major role in creating our map of national and international cultures.
Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores the interactions between tourism and media practices within a contemporary culture in which the consumption of images has become increasingly significant. A number of common themes and concerns arise, and the contributions included are divided between those:
Incorporating case study material from the UK, the Caribbean, Australia, the US, France and Switzerland, this significant text - ideal for students of culture, media and tourism studies - discusses tourism and the media as separate processes through which identity is constructed in relation to space and place.
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