Cultures of mass tourism : doing the Mediterranean in the age of banal mobilities

Cultures of mass tourism : doing the Mediterranean in the age of banal mobilities / edited by Pau Obrador Pons, Mike Crang, Penny Travlou.

Cultures of Mass Tourism discusses how mass tourism has brought about new social and cultural formations that mix global, national and local influences and offers a series of insights into some of the key sites. It looks at the new forms and spaces created, as well as the social practices and materi...

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Other Authors: Pons, Pau Obrador, Crang, Mike, Travlou, Penny
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009.
Series:New directions in tourism analysis.
Subjects:
Tourism > Mediterranean Region > Marketing.
Culture and tourism > Mediterranean Region.
Package tours > Mediterranean Region.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Culture and tourism
Economic history
Package tours
Social conditions
Tourism > Marketing
Mediterranean Region > Social conditions.
Mediterranean Region > Economic conditions.
Mediterranean Region
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : taking Mediterranean tourists seriously / Pau Obrador Pons, Mike Crang and Penny Travlou
  • Morocco : restaging colonialism for the masses / Claudio Minca and Rachele Borghi
  • Banal tourism? Between cosmopolitanism and orientalism / Michael Haldrup
  • The island that was not there : producing Corelli's island, staging Kefalonia / Mike Crang and Penny Travlou
  • The Mediterranean pool : cultivating hospitality in the coastal hotel / Pau Obrador Pons
  • 'De Veraneo en la Playa' : belonging and the familiar in Mediterranean mass tourism / Javier Caletrío
  • Hosts and guests, guests and hosts : British residential tourism in the Costa del Sol / Karen O'Reilly
  • Mobile practice and youth tourism / Dan Knox
  • Corrupted seas : the Mediterranean in the age of mass mobility / Pau Obrador Pons, Mike Crang and Penny Travlou.

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