Tourism and visual culture. Volume 2, Methods and cases / edited by Peter M. Burns, Jo-Anne Lester and Lyn Bibbings.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burns, Peter (Peter M.)

Lester, Jo-Anne.

Bibbings, Lyn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism.

Visual communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : CAB International, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores the significance of tourism as a significant phenomenon in both generating and receiving societies, examining methods and cases that demonstrate, develop, and affirm tourism's essentially visual nature. This work uses tourism-related methodology such as photographs, souvenirs and advertising material to discuss findings.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Author Biographies; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Examining the Messages of Contemporary 'Tourist Art' in Yucatán, Mexico: Comparing Chichén Itzá and the Puuc Region; 2 Medialization of Touristic Reality: the Berlin Wall Revisited; 3 Vision, Translation, Rhetoric: Constructing Heritage in Museum Exhibitions; 4 Visual Images of Metaphors in Tourism Advertising; 5 Visual and Tourist Dimensions of Trentino's Borderscape; 6 The Campi Flegrei: a Case Study; 7 The Use of Visual Products in Relation to Time-Space Behaviour of Cultural Tourists

8 Integrating Multiple Research Methods: a Visual Sociology Approach to Venice9 Using Volunteer-employed Photography: Seeing St David's Peninsula through the Eyes of Locals and Tourists; 10 Visual Methodologies and Photographic Practices: Encounters with Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site; 11 From 'The Dunghill of England' to 'The Jewel of the Commonwealth': Using the Concept of Tourism Image to Explore Identity and Tourism in 19th-century and Early 20th-century Tasmania; 12 The Construction of Destinations - Symbolic Meanings for Destinations and Visitors

13 Destination-promoted and Visitor-generated Images - Do They Represent Similar Stories?14 Photographs in Brochures as the Representations of Induced Image in the Marketing of Destinations: a Case Study of Istanbul; 15 Rematerializing Tourism Research through Visual Ethnography; 16 Images of Beauty and Family. Contemporary Imagery at Aquafan; 17 'You Can Do Anything in Goa, India.' A Visual Ethnography of Tourism as Neo-colonialism; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-65783-6

9786612657832

1-84593-612-4

OCLC:

813219136