Exploring the Use and Impact of Travel Guidebooks / Victoria Peel, Anders Sørensen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peel, Victoria, Author.

Sørensen, Anders, Author.

Series:

Tourism and cultural change ; 48.

Tourism and Cultural Change

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travel--Guidebooks.

Travel.

Tourism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of travel guidebooks and their conceptualisation, use and impact. Guidebooks have been key tourism paraphernalia for almost two centuries and although researched in some areas, academic knowledge on guidebooks in tourism has not been expansively communicated. The uncritical, unreflective and largely pejorative approach to guidebooks in the public sphere, and to some degree also present in academia, is reassessed in this book. This challenges the current limited tourism research approaches to the topic, including the routinely held assumption that the internet has all but destroyed the printed guidebook. This book will be a useful resource for postgraduate students and researchers in tourism and tourism communications and consumption.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1. Introduction: Travel Guidebooks and Tourism Discourse

2. Conceptualising Travel Guidebooks

3. Guidebook Histories

4. Travel Guidebooks as Text

5. According to the Guidebook: Exploring Lonely Planet’s Australia

7. Slaves to the Guidebook? Exploring Guidebook Usage

9. Permission to Coast? Travel Guidebooks and Tourism Businesses

10. ‘Countdown to Doomsday’? Guidebook Agency in Destination Development

11. Transformations in the Age of e-Tourism: The End of the Guidebook As We Know It?

12. The Stigma of Guidebooks: Causes and Questions

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

ISBN:

9781845415655

1845415655

9781845415648

1845415647

OCLC:

1138501761