Seductions of place : geographical perspectives on globalization and touristed landscapes /: geographical perspectives on globalization and touristed landscapes. (2004)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Carolyn Cartier and Alan A. Lew.
• Other Names: Cartier, Carolyn L; Lew, Alan A
• Contents: Touristed landscapes/seductions of place / Carolyn Cartier -- Flirting with space : tourism geographies as sensuous/expressive practice -- / David Crouch -- Tourism and the modern subject : placing the encounter between tourist and other / Tim Oakes -- The souvenir and sacrifice in the tourist mode of consumption / Jon Goss -- Tourism economy : the global landscape / Ginger Smith -- Silicon values : miniaturization, speed, and money -- / Dean Maccannell -- Bellagio and beyond / Claudio Minca -- Seducing global capital : reimaging space in Melbourne and Sydney / C. Michael Hall -- Urbanscape as attraction : the case of Guangzhou / Ning Wang -- San Francisco and the Left Coast / Carolyn Cartier -- Tourist weddings in Hawai'i : consuming the destination / Mary G. McDonald -- Maintaining the myth : Tahiti and its islands -- / Anne-Marie d'Hauteserre -- Uncertain images : tourism development and seascapes of the Caribbean / Janet Henshall Momsen -- The contested beach : resistance and resort development in Antigua, West Indies / Jeff Baldwin -- Desiring Ashima, sexing landscape in China's Stone Forest / Margaret Byrne Swain -- "New Asia-Singapore" : a concoction of tourism, place, and image / T.C. Chang and Shirlena Huang -- Is the Great Wall of China the Great Wall of China? / Trevor H.B. Sofield and Fung Mei Sarah Li -- Existential tourism and the homeland : the overseas Chinese experience / Alan A. Lew and Alan Wong -- Centering tourism geography / Alan A. Lew and Carolyn Cartier.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2004
• Extent: 1 online resource (344 pages), (10 illustrations)
• Subjects: 306.4/819; Geographical perception; Landscape assessment; Tourism -- Social aspects; Human geography; Perception géographique; Paysage -- Évaluation; Tourisme -- Aspect social; Géographie humaine; Geographical perception; Human geography; Landscape assessment; Tourism -- Social aspects; Internationalisatie; Toerisme; Culturele geografie; Aufsatzsammlung; Fremdenverkehrsgebiet; Globalisierung
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781134651870; 1134651872
• 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.