Regimes of value in tourism
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Regimes of value in tourism
Routledge, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Drawing from ethnographic work in five continents, this book demonstrates how different regimes of value in tourism can coexist, collide, and compete across a varied geographic terrain. Much theory in tourism economics defines 'value' as a measure of monetary worth, a concept governing commodity exchange, and a gauge for tourist satisfaction. The research included in this volume shows that tourism not only feeds off existing conceptions of value as a monetary category, but that it is also instrumental in reproducing and reinforcing those subjective, morally heightened, and highly intangible values that make tourism and the tourism economy a complex social, cultural, political, and psychological phenomenon. The book pushes the debate about the tourism economy beyond a simplistic understanding of producer-consumer relations, instead suggesting a refocus on the social, spatial, and temporal lags in tourism production, and the ensuing differentiated regimes of values.
This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Regimes of value in tourism 2. Tourism as theatre: performing and consuming indigeneity in an Australian wildlife sanctuary 3. Shifting values of 'primitiveness' among the Zafimaniry of Madagascar: an anthropological approach to tourist mediators' discourses 4. Branding Copan: valuing cultural distinction in an archaeological tourism destination 5. Values of property (properties of value): capitalization of kinship in Norway 6. Value of silence: mediating aural environments in Estonian rural tourism 7. From tourist to person: the value of intimacy in touristic Cuba
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