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Exploring travel and tourism : essays on journeys and destinations / edited by Jennifer Erica Sweda.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tourism--History.
- Tourism.
- Travelers' writings--History and criticism.
- Travelers' writings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne [England] : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Exploring Travel and Tourism: Essays on Journeys and Destinations offers a broad treatment of topics in global travel/tourism studies through articles presented at Travel and Tourism panels at Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association conferences between 2007 and 2010. Through archival research, close readings and case studies, the authors examine the significance of travel and the tourist experience over the last two hundred years, from Borneo to Cuba to Niagara Falls, and places in ...
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The personal travel narrative : constructing the self through encounters with the other
- pt. 2. Constructing a national identity through tourism
- pt. 3. The meaning of journey; the meaning of destination.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-3805-5
- OCLC:
- 823386117
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