Reinventing the Local in Tourism : Producing, Consuming and Negotiating Place / Greg Richards, Antonio Paolo Russo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Richards, Greg, Editor.

Russo, Antonio (Antonio Paolo), Editor.

Series:

Aspects of tourism ; 73.

Aspects of Tourism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peer-to-peer travel.

Independent travel.

Hospitality industry--Technological innovations.

Hospitality industry.

Glocalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Channel View Publications, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book investigates the way localities are shaped and negotiated through tourism, and explores the emerging success of local peer-produced hospitality and tourism services which are transforming the tourist experience. Tourists are now being brought into much closer contact with locals and have new opportunities to experience the community at their destination. This book examines these place experiences and travel-sharing arrangements that have now spread globally due to the use of social communication platforms such as Airbnb. It analyses the existence of global communities of ‘place experts’ that are redefining the organisational structures, value systems, market opportunities, affordabilities and geographies in travel and tourism. This volume brings together the work of established tourism scholars as well as early career researchers and is one of the first books to examine the global-local relationship at tourism destinations and the way that the rapidly developing field of peer-to-peer tourism is transforming tourist destinations.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Contributors

Foreword

1. Introduction

2. The Shifting Spatial Logic of Tourism in Networked Hospitality

3. Authority and Authorship: Uncovering the Sociotechnical Regimes of Peer-to-Peer Tourism

4. Ethical Travel: Holidaying to Fight the Italian Mafia

5. The ‘Diffuse Hotel’: An Italian New Model of Sustainable Hospitality

6. The Co-creation of Urban Tourism Experiences

7. ‘Get Local’: ICT, Tourism and Community Place Making in Auckland, New Zealand

8 .(Dis)engaging the Local: Backpackers’ Usage of Social Media During Crises

9. Rethinking Host–Guest Relationships in the Context of Urban Ethnic Tourism

10. Place Making or Place Faking? The Paradoxical Effects of Transnational Circulation of Architectural and Urban Development Projects

11. Hostels and the Making of New Urban Spaces

12. Between Translation and Reinterpretation: What is Local in Barcelona’s Foodsphere?

13. Unravelling Airbnb: Urban Perspectives from Barcelona

14. Urban Resistance Tourism Initiatives in Stressed Cities: The Case of Athens

15. Synthesis and Conclusions: Towards a New Geography of Tourism?

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781845415716

184541571X

9781845415709

1845415701

OCLC:

1138542166