Exploring the use and impact of travel guidebooks
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Exploring the use and impact of travel guidebooks
（Tourism and cultural change, 48）
Channel View Publications, c2016
- : pbk
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-239) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: Travel Guidebooks and Tourism Discourse
Chapter 2. Conceptualising Travel Guidebooks
Chapter 3. Guidebook Histories
Chapter 4. Travel Guidebooks as Text
Chapter 5. According to the Guidebook: Exploring Lonely Planet's Australia
Chapter 6. 'Why I Love/Hate My Guidebook': Perspectives from the Blogosphere
Chapter 7. Slaves to the Guidebook? Exploring Guidebook Usage
Chapter 8. Towards a Typology of Guidebook Users
Chapter 9. Permission to Coast? Travel Guidebooks and Tourism Businesses
Chapter 10. 'Countdown to Doomsday'? Guidebook Agency in Destination Development
Chapter 11. Transformations in the Age of E-tourism: The End of the Guidebook as We Know It?
Chapter 12. The Stigma of Guidebooks: Causes and Questions
References
by "Nielsen BookData"