Leisure And Tourism Landscapes

Author : Cara Aitchison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134688660
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leisure and Tourism Landscapes written by Cara Aitchison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly significant as mediators of spatial identity and meaning, leisure, tourism, culture and heritage are only now beginning to be located within the rapidly evolving discourses of poststructuralist geographies. Exploring the influence of leisure and tourism on the production, representation and consumption of landscape, the first half of this important book focuses on different ways of ‘seeing’ or representing landscape, whereas the second half examines different forms of productive consumption in leisure and tourism. Both symbolic and material spaces of leisure and tourism are also examined in relation to urban and rural landscapes, heritage landscapes, gendered landscapes, and landscapes of sexuality and desire. With a multidisciplinary approach and a strong theoretical content which builds on poststructuralist theories, this is undoubtedly an important addition to literature in the field.

Author : Jenny T. Chio
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295805064
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Landscape of Travel written by Jenny T. Chio and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the number of domestic leisure travelers has increased dramatically in reform-era China, the persistent gap between urban and rural living standards attests to ongoing social, economic, and political inequalities. The state has widely touted tourism for its potential to bring wealth and modernity to rural ethnic minority communities, but the policies underlying the development of tourism obscure some complicated realities. In tourism, after all, one person’s leisure is another person’s labor. A Landscape of Travel investigates the contested meanings and unintended consequences of tourism for those people whose lives and livelihoods are most at stake in China’s rural ethnic tourism industry: the residents of village destinations. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Ping’an (a Zhuang village in Guangxi) and Upper Jidao (a Miao village in Guizhou), Jenny Chio analyzes the myriad challenges and possibilities confronted by villagers who are called upon to do the work of tourism. She addresses the shifting significance of migration and rural mobility, the visual politics of tourist photography, and the effects of touristic desires for “exotic difference” on village social relations. In this way, Chio illuminates the contemporary regimes of labor and leisure and the changing imagination of what it means to be rural, ethnic, and modern in China today.

Author : Dr Patrick Laviolette
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409488896
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extreme Landscapes of Leisure written by Dr Patrick Laviolette and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, there has been an increased engagement throughout the social sciences with the study of extreme places and practices. Dangerous games and adventure tours have shifted from being marginal, exotic or mad to being more than merely acceptable. They are now exemplary, mainstream even: there are a variety of new types, increasing numbers of people are doing them and they are being appropriated and have infiltrated more and more contexts. This book argues that hazardous sports and adventure tourism have become rather paradoxical. As a set of activities where players and holidaymakers are closer to death or danger than they would otherwise be, they are the complete opposite of normal games or vacations. Adventure sports and tours reverse the general definition of a holiday as being an escape from the seriousness of everyday life, as in most cases, they are innately serious, requiring as they do 'life or death' decision-making. Beginning with the rise in colonial explorations and moving on to consider the Dangerous Sports Club of Oxford, this book examines the increasing phenomena of adventure sports such as bungy jumping, cliff jumping or 'tomb-stoning', surfing and parkour within a framework of positive risk. It explores how certain assumptions about knowledge, agency, the body and nature are beginning to coalesce around newly developing spheres of social relations. Additionally, extreme games have become activities that are germane to the dawning of green social thought and so the book also addresses issues that deal with the intimate connections that exist between pleasure and the moral responsibility towards the environment.

Author : David Crouch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135115257
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leisure/Tourism Geographies written by David Crouch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leisure and Tourism Geographies considers leisure/tourism as an encounter. An encounter that exists between people, between people and space and between people and their expectations, experiences and desires. The contributors explore diverse aspects of leisure and tourism, ranging from the methodologies behind leisure practices to detailed case studies including: *Disneyland, Paris *tourism in sacred landscapes *leisure practices in cyberspace *leisure and yachting *use of recreational/holiday cottages *National Parks, local parks and gardens Presenting an exciting mix of attitudes and ideas concerning leisure and tourism, this book documents a lively debate, placing geography at its centre.

Author : S. Gammon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137428538
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscapes of Leisure written by S. Gammon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims to map out the complex relationships leisure has with notions of place and space in contemporary life. Illustrating the transdisciplinarity of this key feature of leisure studies, it explores how leisure places and spaces affect personal, social and collective identities.

Author : Henk de Haan
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
ISBN 13 : 905972299X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscape, Leisure and Tourism written by Henk de Haan and published by Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Garrett Nagle
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
ISBN 13 : 9780174447054
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tourism, Leisure and Recreation written by Garrett Nagle and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 1999 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers comprehensive and in depth coverage of the topic for AS and A Level. The book is also a useful resource for GNVQ Tourism and Leisure courses.

Author : Hazel Andrews
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415668840
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liminal Landscapes written by Hazel Andrews and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liminal Landscapes brings together variety of new and emerging methodological approaches of liminality from varying disciplines to explore new theoretical perspectives on mobility, space and socio-cultural experience. By doing so, it offers new insight into contemporary questions about technology, surveillance, power, the city, and post-industrial modernity, within the context of tourism and mobility. The book brings together recent research from scholars with international reputations in the fields of tourism, mobility, landscape and place, alongside the work of emergent scholars who are developing new insights and perspectives in this area.

Author : Mark Hendriks
Publisher : 010 Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9064506507
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greetings from Europe written by Mark Hendriks and published by 010 Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the resulting design proposals.

Author : Dean MacCannell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520218925
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tourist written by Dean MacCannell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nothing short of brilliant."--Lewis Coser