Exploring the use and impact of travel guidebooks. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Victoria Peel and Anders Sørensen.
• Authors: Peel, Victoria; Sørensen, Anders
• Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction: Travel Guidebooks and Tourism Discourse Chapter 2. Conceptualising Travel Guidebooks Chapter 3. Guidebook Histories Chapter 4. Travel Guidebooks as Text Chapter 5. According to the Guidebook: Exploring Lonely Planet’s Australia Chapter 6. ‘Why I Love/Hate My Guidebook’: Perspectives from the Blogosphere Chapter 7. Slaves to the Guidebook? Exploring Guidebook Usage Chapter 8. Towards a Typology of Guidebook Users Chapter 9. Permission to Coast? Travel Guidebooks and Tourism Businesses Chapter 10. ‘Countdown to Doomsday’? Guidebook Agency in Destination Development Chapter 11. Transformations in the Age of E-tourism: The End of the Guidebook as We Know It? Chapter 12. The Stigma of Guidebooks: Causes and Questions References
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Channel View Publications
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 910; Travel -- Guidebooks; Tourism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781845415655; 9781845415648; 9781845415662
• Related ISBNs: 9781845415631; 9781845415624
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.