Exploring the Use and Impact of Travel Guidebooks / / Victoria Peel, Anders Sørensen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CVP eBook-Package Contemporary 2016-2020
• VerfasserIn: Peel, Victoria,; Sørensen, Anders,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol, UK;, Blue Ridge Summit, PA : : Channel View Publications, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Tourism and Cultural Change ; 48
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; 1. Introduction: Travel Guidebooks and Tourism Discourse --; 2. Conceptualising Travel Guidebooks --; 3. Guidebook Histories --; 4. Travel Guidebooks as Text --; 5. According to the Guidebook: Exploring Lonely Planet's Australia --; 7. Slaves to the Guidebook? Exploring Guidebook Usage --; 9. Permission to Coast? Travel Guidebooks and Tourism Businesses --; 10. 'Countdown to Doomsday'? Guidebook Agency in Destination Development --; 11. Transformations in the Age of e-Tourism: The End of the Guidebook As We Know It? --; 12. The Stigma of Guidebooks: Causes and Questions --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781845415648; 9783110754346
• DOI: 10.21832/9781845415648
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Victoria Peel, Anders Sørensen.

This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of travel guidebooks and their conceptualisation, use and impact. Guidebooks have been key tourism paraphernalia for almost two centuries and although researched in some areas, academic knowledge on guidebooks in tourism has not been expansively communicated. The uncritical, unreflective and largely pejorative approach to guidebooks in the public sphere, and to some degree also present in academia, is reassessed in this book. This challenges the current limited tourism research approaches to the topic, including the routinely held assumption that the internet has all but destroyed the printed guidebook. This book will be a useful resource for postgraduate students and researchers in tourism and tourism communications and consumption.