Exploring the Use and Impact of Travel Guidebooks - Couverture souple

Peel, Victoria; Sørensen, Anders

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1845415620 ISBN 13 : 9781845415624

Editeur : Channel View Publications, 2016

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Victoria Peel is a senior lecturer in cultural tourism management in the Graduate Tourism program hosted by the National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University, Australia. Her research focuses on cultural tourism and the backpacker and student tourism markets. Anders Sørensen is owner and manager of Tourismlab.dk, which provides tourism and hospitality research and consultancy and produces knowledge of tourism and tourists. His research interests include backpacker tourism, travel guidebooks and tourism in peripheral areas.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Channel View Publications
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845415620
• ISBN 13: 9781845415624
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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