Tourism and intercultural exchange : why tourism matters

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Tourism and intercultural exchange : why tourism matters

Gavin Jack and Alison Phipps

(Tourism and cultural change, 4)

Channel View, c2005

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-175) and index

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Description

This book asks the question; why is it that tourism matters? It looks at how it is we do tourism and learn to be tourists when we are on holiday. Tourism is a dynamic way of being that may facilitate or hinder intercultural exchange. The ways in which we do tourism and the places in which we are tourists raise practical, material and emotional questions about tourist life. This book draws on both empirical work and a range of theoretical frameworks, arguing that tourism matters precisely because of the lessons it can teach us about living everyday life with others.

Table of Contents

  • Section One - Living the Tourist Life 1. Why Tourism Matters
  • 2. The Give and the Take
  • 3. Doing Being Tourists Section Two - Packing the Travel Bag 4. Packing
  • 5. Packers of Culture
  • 6. Bag-sized Stories Section Three - Unpacking the Travel bag 7: New Habits
  • 8: Exchanging Stories
  • 9: Changing Spaces Section Four - After Tourism 10: The Return to Routine
  • 11: Conclusions

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