Great Expectations : : Imagination and Anticipation in Tourism / / ed. by Dimitrios Theodossopoulos, Jonathan Skinner.
The negotiation of expectations in tourism is a complex and dynamic process – one that is central to the imagination of cultural difference. Expectations not only affect the lives and experiences of tourists, but also their hosts, and play an important part in the success or failure of the overall t...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Directions in Anthropology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION: THE PLAY OF EXPECTATION IN TOURISM
- Chapter 2 SUCCESS AND ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE IN THE TOURISTLOCAL ENCOUNTER: CONFRONTATIONS WITH THE UNEXPECTED IN A TURKISH COMMUNITY
- Chapter 3 EMBERÁ INDIGENOUS TOURISM AND THE WORLD OF EXPECTATIONS
- Chapter 4 THE PARADOX OF GAZE AND RESISTANCE IN NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURAL TOURISM: AN ALASKAN CASE STUDY
- Chapter 5 FORWARD INTO THE PAST: ‘DIGGING’ THE BALEARIC ISLANDS
- Chapter 6 ON DIFFERENCE, DESIRE AND THE AESTHETICS OF THE UNEXPECTED: THE WHITE MASAI IN KENYAN TOURISM
- Chapter 7 DISPLEASURE ON ‘PLEASURE ISLAND’: TOURIST EXPECTATION AND DESIRE ON AND OFF THE CUBAN DANCE FLOOR
- Chapter 8 THE COACH FELLAS: TOURISM PERFORMANCE AND EXPECTATION IN IRELAND
- Chapter 9 GOING ON HOLIDAY TO IMAGINE WAR: THE WESTERN FRONT BATTLEFIELDS AS SITES OF COMMEMORATION AND CONTESTATION
- Chapter 10 TOURING THE DEAD: IMAGINATION, EMBODIMENT AND AFFECT IN GUNTHER VON HAGENS’ BODY WORLDS EXHIBITIONS
- Chapter 11 AFTERWORD: THE TOUR AS IMAGINED, LIVED, EXPERIENCED AND TOLD
- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX