Identity and Intercultural Exchange in Travel and Tourism / / ed. by Anthony David Barker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CVP eBook-Package Backfile 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bagley, Petra M.,; Barker, Anthony David,; Bárbara, Noémia,; Campos, Jenny,; Crişan, Marius-Mircea,; Feneja, Fernanda Luísa,; Ferraz Ribeiro, Joana,; Gabryś-Barker, Danuta,; Howcroft, Susan,; Kowalczyk-Piaseczna, Monika,; Kubisz, Marzena,; Latif, Larissa,; Lima Figueiredo, Silvio,; Manuel Baptista, Maria,; Moreira, Gillian,; Pino Santana Quintana, María del,; Pires, Ana Luísa,
• HerausgeberIn: Barker, Anthony David,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol, UK;, Blue Ridge Summit, PA : : Channel View Publications, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Tourism and Cultural Change ; 42
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

This book looks at the relationship between questions of identity formation and modern practices in travelling and tourism. Unprecedented levels of mobility and international exchange over the last 100 years have raised questions about the stability of national and personal identities and new and creative patterns of behaviour and self-realisation are now emerging due to the enormous commercial interests that lie behind the modern travel and tourism industries. The volume will consider these issues and the challenges they create in various geographical contexts (Germany, Spain, Romania, Italy, Africa) and concludes with a number of case studies from the Portuguese context, where the revenues from tourism are integral to its economy and a lifeline in the current economic crisis.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1: Exchanging Places -- 1. The Business of Creative Tourism and Creativity in the Tourism Business -- 2. Negotiating Mobility: On the Slow Move -- 3. Mein Mallorca: A German-Spanish Love Affair -- 4. Commercial Cinema, Location Shooting and 'the Tourism Effect' -- 5. Nature, Culture and the Genesis of the Concept of Travel -- Part 2: Narratives of Travel and Identity -- 6. The Appeal of Otherness: Reconstructions of Self in Contemporary Travel Writing -- 7. Representations of Maramureş in Contemporary Female Travel Writing: Dervla Murphy, Caroline Juler and Bronwen Riley -- 8. Tourist Experience in Narrative Fiction: E.M. Forster's A Room with a View -- 9. Deaths in Venice: Dying for a Holiday -- 10. Peregrinating Objects: Consumptive Capacities of the Traveller's Personal Items in Robert Byron's The Road to Oxiana and Jason Elliot's Unexpected Light -- 11. Travelling in/to Africa: Narratives of Postcolonial Encounters -- Part 3: The Case of Portugal -- 12. Mythical Moors: Constructing a Cultural Tourist Itinerary Around Valpaços -- 13. (O)Porto: A Wine, a Place, a Route and a Meeting Point -- 14. Cultural Interfaces and Perceptions of Space: A Polish-Portuguese Comparative Study -- 15. Eating Portugal: Translating Food