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The northern state of Rajasthan, India, has been successfully marketed as the nation's most heritage-laden, traditional and authentic. This draws heavily on the late 19th and early 20th century years of British rule in India - the Raj. This book explores the cultural politics of tourism in this region through interdisciplinary perspectives.

Analyses of contemporary tourism planning and policymaking practice at local to global scales is lacking and there is an urgent need for research that informs theory and practice. Illustrated with a set of cohesive, theoretically-informed, international case studies constructed through storytelling, this volume expands readers'' knowledge about how tourism planning and policymaking takes place. Challenging traditional notions of tourism planning and policy processes, this book also provides critical insights into how theoretical concepts and frameworks are applied in tourism planning and policy making practice at different spatial scales. The book engages readers in the intellectual, political, moral and ethical issues that often surround tourism policymaking and planning, highlighting the great value of reflective learning grounded in the social sciences and revealing the complexity of tourism planning and policy.

Although blurred and heavily contested, the concept of ΓÇÖtourist destinationΓÇÖ still deserves careful attention. Despite its unstable characteristics, ΓÇÖdestinationΓÇÖ is a central and meaningful term in play among all parties in the field of tourism, including tourists, tourism operators, and politicians, as well as students and tourism scholars. This anthology draws on different approaches and discourses of tourism destination development, while focusing on how they are shaped and reshaped and how they should be read and rehearsed. The book reveals dominant as well as alternative approaches to the field. The authors demonstrate how tourism destinations are commercial, but socially embedded; how they are both material and territorial, but at the same time socially constructed; how production of touristic brands and images are vital, but contested. Such tensions are unfolded through paradigmatic discussions and a series of case studies from the northern hemisphere. The chapters in the book investigate how destination development is catalysed through theming, how changing environments lead to reorientations, and how destinations are political. Altogether, the book provides experts and students with an up-to-date theoretical and empirical insight into tourist destinations.

This volume explores sports event management from a Caribbean, small island, developing state perspective, using the Cricket World Cup 2007 as a case study through which to identify best practices and potential improvements for the future. The conclusions drawn offer significant lessons in sports event management for both the Caribbean region and the world.

The multiplicity of tourism encounters provide some of the best available occasions to observe the social world and its making(s). Focusing on ontological politics of tourism development, this book examines how different versions of tourism are enacted, how encounters between different versions of tourism orderings may result in controversies, but also on how these enactments and encounters are entangled in multiple ways to broader areas of development, conservation, policy and destination management. Throughout the book, encounters and controversies are investigated from a poststructuralist and relational approach as complex and emerging, seeing the roles and characteristics of related actors as co-constituted. Inspired by post-actor-network theory and related research, the studies include the social as well as the material, but also multiplicity and ontological politics when examining controversial matters or events.

There is growing concern in many places about how to balance the use of ethnicity as a tourist attraction with the protection of minority cultures and the promotion of ethnic pride. Despite the fact that a substantial literature is devoted to the impacts of ethnic tourism.

Drawing upon theories of landscape and performance, this work weaves together existing tourism literature with new scholarship to forge a geographically informed theory of tourism. Such a theory integrates the ways in which places are co-produced, circulated, interpreted, experienced, and performed for and by tourists, tourism boards.

Offers a series of insights into some of the key sites of mass Mediterranean tourism, including the beach, the island, the tourist resort and the coastal hotel. This book focuses on the 'mass' element and reflects on the 'banal' experiences of the package tourist.

Looks at the making and the consuming of places in the contemporary world. Illustrated through various case-studies from Denmark, this book considers how places, performances and peoples intersect. It also examines the circumstances through which visitors to a place, in part, produce that place through their performances.

The 'taking' of photographs is one of the most characteristic and symbolic moments in tourism. This book examines the relationships between photography and tourism and tourists. It asks key questions such as: why do tourists take photos of certain things and not of others; why do tourists take photos at all; and, how do photos build places.

The CWC 2007 was the first time in any sport, a World Cup was staged in nine independent countries. Exploring sports event management from a Caribbean, small island developing state perspective, this volume uses the events of the recently held Cricket World Cup 2007 (CWC 2007) as a launching pad for identifying best practices and the way forward.

This volume provides a comprehensive exploration of the subject from the point of view of both practice - how Dark Tourism is performed, what practical and physical considerations exist on site - and interpretation - how Dark Tourism is understood, including issues pertaining to ethics, community involvement and motivation.

Focuses on a specific pilgrimage voyage - that to the Holy Land during times of security crisis. This book examines this tourism journey in relation to constraints and high levels of risk experienced by the pilgrims. It not only provides insights into pilgrimage as tourism, but also offers an integrative approach to tourism crisis management.

Presenting the theory, research and case studies investigating Web 2.0 applications and tools that transform the role and behaviour of the new generation of travellers, this book also examines the ways in which tourism organisations reengineer and implement their business models and operations, such as new service development, and marketing.

What happens when tourists scream with fear, shout with anger and frustration, weep with joy and delight, or even faint in the face of revealed beauty? This book deals with the emotional dimensions of tourism, travel and contact and the ways in which they can transform tourists, destinations and travel cultures through emotional engagements.

Drawing upon the literature of landscape geography, tourism studies, cultural studies, visual studies and philosophy, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the interaction between urban environments and tourists.

Illustrated by revealing interviews with women and men in the tourist resorts in the Sinai, Egypt, this book is ostensibly about western women who sleep with 'native' men while on holiday.

Expands readers' knowledge about how tourism planning and policymaking takes place. Challenging traditional notions of tourism planning and policy processes, this book provides critical insights into how theoretical concepts and frameworks are applied in tourism planning and policy making practice at different spatial scales.

The interconnections between globalisation, development and tourism are a crucial nexus in analyses of North-South exchange and in relation to 'empire'. Drawing on her experiences working in an NGO in Cuba, the author examines the nature of development, while investigating tourism motivations and experiences.

As an industry, tourism is particularly susceptible to outside events producing negative consumer perceptions. This book provides a conceptual approach to questions such as how tourism businesses prepare for and react to crisis, which measures are taken and what impact they have, and which strategies can be employed to overcome them.

The European tourism sector benefits from Europe's long and ancient cultural and historic legacy. One of the unfavourable aspects of tourism is its impact upon the environment and society as a whole. The papers that comprise this volume examine the problem and offer suggestions and solutions.

While many books have engaged with the structural frames of tourist practice and experience, this is the first to deal with the emotional dimensions of tourism. International scholars from a range of disciplines have come together to explore how the movement to, and through, the realms of exotic people, wild natures, subliminal art, spirit worlds, metropolitan cities and sexualised 'others' variably provoke emotions, peak experiences, travel syndromes and inner dialogues. The authors show how tourism challenges us to engage with concepts of self, other, time, nature, sex, the body and death.

Outlining the need for fresh perspectives on change in tourism, this book offers a theoretical overview and empirical examples of the potential synergies of applying evolutionary economic geography (EEG) concepts in tourism research.

For many in the West, Romania is synonymous with Count Dracula. Moreover, since the late 1960s Western tourists have travelled to Transylvania on their own searches for the literary and supernatural roots of the Dracula myth. This book examines the way that Romania has negotiated Dracula tourism.

Focuses on the political economy of the international tourism sector in the era of globalization and its impact in developing contexts. This book employs a case study analysis of South Africa to assess how international tourism as a global system of trade, production, exchange and governance plays out in developing countries.