Title: Landscape, tourism, and meaning /
Authors: Knudsen, Daniel C., 1955-
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Tourism.; Tourism Social aspects; Culture and tourism.; Landscape assessment.
Abstract: How do we re-theorize tourism? By drawing less on the Foucauldian notion of 'tourism as gazing' and instead focusing on the social construction of meaning in the landscape, this insightful book provides an innovative and compelling new approach to tourist studies.
Contents: Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Maps; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Landscape, Tourism, and Meaning: An Introduction; 2 Landscape Perspective for Tourism Studies; 3 Identity and Landscape: The Reification of Place in Strasbourg, France; 4 Landscape Change and Regional Identity in the Copper Canyon Region; 5 Mauritian Landscapes of Culture, Identity, and Tourism; 6 Slicing the Dobish Torte: The Three Layers of Tourism in Munich; 7 A Nostalgia for Terror; 8 The Parallax of Landscape: Situating Celaque National Park, Honduras; 9 Insiders and Outsiders in Thy.