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Official Tourism Websites : : A Discourse Analysis Perspective / / Judith Kaplan-Weinger, Richard W. Hallett.

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Official Tourism Websites: A Discourse Analysis Perspective investigates the construction and promotion of identity of tourist locales by the designers of the official websites for destinations such as Santiago de Compostela, Spain; the Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia; New Orleans, Louisiana and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CVP eBook-Package Backfile 2000-2013
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Hallett, Richard W.,
Kaplan-Weinger, Judith,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol, UK;, Blue Ridge Summit, PA : : Channel View Publications, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Tourism and Cultural Change ; 23
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Physical Description:1 online resource (152 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Dedications
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Identity and the World Wide Web: Methods of Analysis
  • 3. Narrative of the Nation: Baltic Tourism Websites in the Post-Soviet Context
  • 4. The Tourist as Pilgrim, the Pilgrim as Tourist: Santiago de Compostela
  • 5. Rebirth of an American City: New Orleans, Louisiana
  • 6. '100 Years. . . Steel Strong': Forging an Identity for Gary, Indiana
  • 7. The Tourist as Patriot: Sports and Nationalism
  • 8. Balancing Promotion and Warning in the Construction of National Identity in Travel Guides: The Case of Myanmar/Burma
  • 9. Constructing Self versus Other in Parodic Travel Guides
  • 10. Conclusion: On Tourism, Identity and the World Wide Web
  • References
  • Index

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