Tourism at the Olympic Games: Visiting the World

ISBN-13: 9781138294813 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 126 str.

Mike Robinson; Josef Ploner

Opis

This book presents a range of fascinating case studies exploring the social, cultural, political and economic interdependencies between tourism and the Olympic Games. International and multidisciplinary in scope, the book provides unique, and often surprising insights, into the ways in which ‘Olympic tourism’ relates to issues such as heritage interpretation, religion, and social inclusion, and sheds light on ongoing debates on the ‘impact’ and ‘legacy’ of the global mega event. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change.

Spis treści

1. Tourism at the Olympic Games: visiting the world  2. The possessive logic of settler-invader nations in Olympic ceremonies  3. The religion in Olympic tourism  4. Culture and the 2012 Games: creating a tourism legacy?  5. Peking Duck as a museum spectacle: staging local heritage for Olympic tourism  6. Tourism aspects of the XVII Rome Olympiad  7. Government motivations for hosting the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games  8. Turin 2006 Olympic Winter Games: impacts and legacies from a tourism perspective 

O autorze

Mike Robinson is Professor of Cultural Heritage, and Director of the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage, at the University of Birmingham, UK. His interests lie in the production and consumption of categories of heritage within changing cultural and cross-cultural contexts. He is particularly interested in how tourists experience the past, and how tourism works with heritage to shape identities at the individual and collective levels.

Josef Ploner is a Lecturer in International Education at the University of Hull, UK. He is a cultural anthropologist who specialises in cultural and heritage tourism, travel and tourism as forms of learning, narrative ordering, and the formation of personal and collective memory. Furthermore, his research also focuses on global student mobilities and cross-cultural experiences in international Higher Education settings.