Reinventing the Local in Tourism : : Producing, Consuming and Negotiating Place / / ed. by Antonio Paolo Russo, Greg Richards.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CVP eBook-Package Contemporary 2016-2020
• MitwirkendeR: Bialski, Paula,; Deuchar, Carolyn,; Domínguez, Alan Quaglieri,; Ferrari, Sonia,; Forno, Francesca,; Fotev, Stefan,; Garibaldi, Roberta,; Gilli, Monica,; Hannam, Kevin,; Ioannides, Dimitri,; Leventis, Panos,; Mavaracchio, Francesca,; Milne, Simon,; Pappalepore, Ilaria,; Paris, Cody Morris,; Peters, Karin,; Petridou, Evangelia,; Ponzini, Davide,; Richards, Greg,; Russo, Antonio Paolo,; Sans, Albert Arias,; Smith, Andrew,; Smith, Melanie,; Soro, Elsa,; Zátori, Anita,
• HerausgeberIn: Richards, Greg,; Russo, Antonio Paolo,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol, UK;, Blue Ridge Summit, PA : : Channel View Publications, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Aspects of Tourism ; 73
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

This book investigates the way localities are shaped and negotiated through tourism, and explores the emerging success of local peer-produced hospitality and tourism services which are transforming the tourist experience. Tourists are now being brought into much closer contact with locals and have n...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Contributors
• Foreword
• 1. Introduction
• Part 1: New Products and Hospitality Models
• 2. The Shifting Spatial Logic of Tourism in Networked Hospitality
• 3. Authority and Authorship: Uncovering the Sociotechnical Regimes of Peer-to-Peer Tourism
• 4. Ethical Travel: Holidaying to Fight the Italian Mafia
• 5. The 'Diffuse Hotel': An Italian New Model of Sustainable Hospitality
• Part 2: Flows and Communities
• 6. The Co-creation of Urban Tourism Experiences
• 7. 'Get Local': ICT, Tourism and Community Place Making in Auckland, New Zealand
• 8 .(Dis)engaging the Local: Backpackers' Usage of Social Media During Crises
• 9. Rethinking Host-Guest Relationships in the Context of Urban Ethnic Tourism
• Part 3: Built Environments and 'Glocalized' Spaces
• 10. Place Making or Place Faking? The Paradoxical Effects of Transnational Circulation of Architectural and Urban Development Projects
• 11. Hostels and the Making of New Urban Spaces
• 12. Between Translation and Reinterpretation: What is Local in Barcelona's Foodsphere?
• 13. Unravelling Airbnb: Urban Perspectives from Barcelona
• 14. Urban Resistance Tourism Initiatives in Stressed Cities: The Case of Athens
• 15. Synthesis and Conclusions: Towards a New Geography of Tourism?
• Index