From heritage to terrorism : regulating tourism in an age of uncertainty / Brian Simpson and Cheryl Simpson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simpson, Brian.

Contributor:

Simpson, Cheryl.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heritage tourism.

Culture and tourism.

Cultural property--Protection.

Cultural property.

Terrorism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Critical in style, From Heritage to Terrorism: Regulating Tourism in an Age of Uncertainty examines the law and its role in shaping and defining tourism and the tourist experience. Using a broad range of legal documents and other materials from a variety of disciplines, it surveys how the underlying values of tourism often conflict with a concern for human rights, cultural heritage and sustainable environments.Departing from the view that within this context the law is simply relegated to dealing the 'hard edges' of the tourist industry and tourist behaviour, the authors exp

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Part I: Law in tourism; Chapter 1: Conceptualising tourism and the tourist as a legal problem; Part II: Tourism as a just cause; Chapter 2: Establishing the exalted tourist; Chapter 3: The urban tourist: Inserting the tourist into the cityscape; Chapter 4: The exalted cultural tourist: Gazing on culture; Part III: Tourism as transgression; Chapter 5: The targeted tourist: The legal construction of fear; Chapter 6: The pleasure tourist: Sex tourism as a legal dilemma; Chapter 7: Work and death in tourism: From darkness to voyeurism

Part IV: Tourism in lawChapter 8: Conclusion: Tourism as a legal problem; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-415-87020-8

1-136-93957-1

1-136-93958-X

1-282-73277-3

9786612732775

0-203-84719-9

9780203847190

OCLC:

664232455