Cities and Visitors
Subtitle: Regulating Tourists, Markets and City Space (Studies in Urban and Social Change)
Contributors: Sophie Body-Gendrot (Contributor); Nuria Claver (Contributor); Claire Colomb (Contributor); Hartmut Haeussermann (Contributor); Chris Hamnett (Contributor); David Gladstone (Contributor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: October 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781405100588
Subjects: Cultural studies; Economics; Tourism industry; Urban & municipal planning; Sociology; Industries - General; Cities and towns; Social Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Research; Industries - Hospitality, Travel & Tourism; Earth Sciences - Geography; Business & Economics / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism; Tourism; Human Geography; Management
First sentence: In the post-structuralist urban literature, enclaves represent local nodes of international circuits of capital and culture, though each of them may masquerade as a local space: gated communities, through the magic of marketing, become neighborhoods; malls are said to be the new marketplaces; and tourist bubbles offer simulacra of the cities they are replacing.