Experiencescapes : tourism, culture and economy / Tom O'Dell & Peter Billing (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Dell, Tom.

Billing, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social evolution.

Culture.

Civilization, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Copenhagen : Copenhagen Business School Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Working with an interdisciplinary approach, this book critically analyzes the significance the market for experiences (and interest in them) is having as a generative motor of cultural and socioeconomic change in modern society."

Contents:

""EXPERIENCESCAPES: TOURISM, CULTURE AND ECONOMY""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1 Experiencescapes: Blurring Borders and Testing Connections""; ""Experiencescapes""; ""The Cultural Turn""; ""Identity Production and the Consequences of Scaping""; ""Marketers, Alchemists, and Warriors""; ""A Post-sightseeing Society""; ""The Slower Pulse""; ""Easy Money � or a Risky Economy?""; ""2 Looking With New Eyes at The Old Factory On the Rise of Industrial Cool""; ""Industries Beyond 2000""; ""Early Industrial Experiencescapes""

""The Rise of Industrial Cool""""Staged Factories: The Transparent Factory, Dresden, Germany""; ""Recycled Factories: The BALTIC Art Factory, Gateshead, UK""; ""What�s Cool and Sublime? The Undertow of Industrial Harshness""; ""3 A Theory of Tourism Experiences: The Management of Attention""; ""The Attention Structure Framework in Context""; ""Attention and Experience""; ""Attractions and Distractions""; ""Lessons for the Tourism Industry""; ""Conclusions""; ""4 Regional Experiencescapes as Geo-economic Ammunition""

""Patriotic Nostalgia: The Kro as a Representation of Danishness""""Popular Culture: The Kro as a Representation of Lower Class Taste""; ""Ways of Belonging: The Kro as a Representation of Home""; ""Conclusions""; ""7 Management Strategies and the Need for Fun""; ""Making Reservations for Experiences""; ""Techniques of Experiencescaping""; ""Context over Liminality""; ""Experience as Gift Exchange""; ""WorkPlay""; ""8 Promoting the Known and the Unknown of Cities and City Regions""; ""Empirical Data and Analysis""; ""Cities as Known and Unknown Elements""

""Exploring the Known and Unknown in the Urban Experiencescape""""Cities as Spatial Entities""; ""The Experience Economy as a Cognitive Shift""; ""Bringing Experiences into Urban Competition""; ""Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

87-630-9970-5

OCLC:

923360083