Exploring the Use and Impact of Travel Guidebooks / / 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 expansive...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CVP eBook-Package Contemporary 2016-2020 |
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| 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 ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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