Irish Tourism: Image, Culture & Identity

✍ Scribed by Michael Cronin

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 300
Series: Tourism and Cultural Change, 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book is a collection of essays that examines the social, political and cultural impact of tourism on Irish society. It deals with both the historical experience of Irish tourism and with the contemporary influence of tourism on different areas of Irish life and cultural self-representation. The work situates the developments in Irish tourism within the broader context of globalisation and the role of tourism in a changing international order.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Irish Tourism: Image Culture and Identit

📁 Irish Tourism: Image Culture and Identity

✍ Michael Cronin (editor); Barbara O'Connor (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2003 🏛 Channel View Publications 🌐 English

<p>The book explores the multi-faceted nature of the important phenomenon of Irish tourism, drawing on current work in sociology, cultural studies, ethnography, and language studies. It will provide invaluable insights into historical and contemporary tourist representations, practices and impacts a

Contemporary Irish Drama & Cultural Iden

📁 Contemporary Irish Drama & Cultural Identity

✍ Margaret Llewellyn Jones, Margaret Llewellyn-Jones 📂 Library 📅 2002 🌐 English

Exploring the works of Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness, Tom Murphy, and Thomas Kilroy, the author presents an introduction on the historical context of Irish culture, with particular attention being paid to the works performed in the 1990s.

Cultural Tourism and Identity : Rethinki

📁 Cultural Tourism and Identity : Rethinking Indigeneity

✍ Keyan G. Tomaselli 📂 Library 📅 2012 🏛 BRILL 🌐 English

Studies of cultural tourism and indigenous identity are fraught with questions concerning exploitation, entitlement, ownership and authenticity. Unease with the idea of leveraging a group identity for commercial gain is ever-present. This anthology articulates some of these debates from a multitude

Tea and Tourism: Tourists, Traditions, a

📁 Tea and Tourism: Tourists, Traditions, and Transformations (Tourism and Cultural Change)

✍ Lee Jolliffe 📂 Library 📅 2007 🌐 English

The global production, marketing and consumption of tea present a resource for tea-related tourism. "Tea and Tourism: Tourists, Traditions and Transformations" profiles tea cultures and examines the social, political and developmental contexts of using related traditions for touristic purposes. This

Histories of Tourism: Representation, Id

📁 Histories of Tourism: Representation, Identity And Conflict (Tourism and Cultural Change)

✍ John K. Walton 📂 Library 📅 2005 🏛 Multilingual Matters 🌐 English

Key features: •Argues for a closer relationship between history and tourism studies •Written by an expert team of international contributors •Explores a broad range of geographical and historical contexts This collection of essays presents develops the historical dimension to tourism studies t

Performing Cultural Tourism: Communities

📁 Performing Cultural Tourism: Communities, Tourists and Creative Practices

✍ Susan Carson; Mark Pennings 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

While experiential staging is well documented in tourism studies, not enough has been written about the diverse types of experiences and expectations that visitors bring to the tourist space and how communities respond to, or indeed challenge, these expectations. This book brings together new ideas