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Mapping Tourism
Hanna, Stephen P.; Hanna, Stephen P.; Del Casino, Vincent J.. Ed(S): Del Casino, Vincent J.; Hanna, Stephen P.
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paperback. Editor(s): Del Casino, Vincent J.; Hanna, Stephen P. Num Pages: 256 pages, 25 halftones, 1 table, 13 maps. BIC Classification: RGC; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 272 x 227 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
Looks at tourism maps to offer new insights into the social construction of place
At first glance, the relationships among tourists, tourism maps, and the spaces of tourism seem straightforward enough: tourists use maps to find their way to and through the sites of history, culture, nature, or recreation represented there. Less apparent is how tourism maps and those using them construct such spaces and identities. As the essays in Mapping Tourism clearly demonstrate, the extraordinary interactions of work with leisure and the everyday with the exotic make tourism maps ideal sites for exploring the contested construction of place and identity.
Construction ... Read more Contributors: Mary Curran, Eastern Connecticut State U; Dydia DeLyser, Louisiana State U; Owen J. Dwyer, Indiana U; John R. Gold, Oxford Brookes U; Margaret M. Gold, U of North London; Rob Shields; Karen E. Till, U of Minnesota. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816639564
SKU
V9780816639564
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Hanna, Stephen P.; Hanna, Stephen P.; Del Casino, Vincent J.. Ed(S): Del Casino, Vincent J.; Hanna, Stephen P.
Vincent J. Del Casino Jr. is assistant professor in geography and the liberal studies program at California State University, Long Beach.
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