Great expectations : imagination and anticipation in tourism /: imagination and anticipation in tourism. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jonathan Skinner, Dimitrios Theodossopoulos.
• Other Names: Skinner, Jonathan, 1970-; Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios
• Contents: Introduction : The play of expectation in tourism / Jonathan Skinner and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos -- Success and access to knowledge in the tourist-local encounter : confrontations with the unexpected in a Turkish community / Hazel Tucker -- Emberá indigenous tourism and the world of expectations / Dimitrios Theodossopoulos -- The paradox of gaze and resistance in native American cultural tourism : an Alaskan case study / Alexis Celeste Bunten -- Forward into the past : 'digging' the Balearic Islands / Jacqueline Waldren -- On difference, desire and the aesthetics of the unexpected : The white Masai in Kenyan tourism / George Paul Meiu -- Displeasure on 'Pleasure Island' : tourist expectation and desire on and off the Cuban dance floor / Jonathan Skinner -- The coach fellas : tourism performance and expectation in Ireland / Kelli Ann Malone -- Going on holiday to imagine war : the Western Front battlefields as sites of commemoration and contestation / Jennifer Iles -- Touring the dead : imagination, embodiment and affect in Gunther von Hagen's Body worlds exhibitions / Jane C. Desmond -- Afterword : The tour as imagined, lived, experienced and told / Edward M. Bruner.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 207 pages)
• Subjects: 306.4/819; Tourism -- Psychological aspects; Travelers -- Psychology; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; Tourism -- Psychological aspects; Travelers -- Psychology; Erwartung; Psychologie; Reise; Aufsatzsammlung; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857452788; 0857452789
• Related ISBNs: 9780857452771; 0857452770
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• 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.