The pink tourism dollar is now recognized as a highly profitable niche of the tourism market. Gay Tourism: Culture and Context critically investigates the emergence of a commercial gay tourism industry for male clients, the way it is organized, and how the tourism industry promotes cities, resorts, and nations as 'gay' destinations. This careful examination critically questions the social, political, and cultural implications regarding relationships between gay tourism, Western gay male culture, the erotic, sexual politics, and sexual diversity.
The pink tourism dollar is now recognized as a highly profitable niche of the tourism market. Gay Tourism: Culture and Context critically investigates...
This comprehensive overview details the place of tourism in western gay male culture and in the world at large, with emphasis on its effects on gay identity and global, national and local communities. It also reveals the various motivations for gay tourist choices and the destinations that attempt to lure them.
This comprehensive overview details the place of tourism in western gay male culture and in the world at large, with emphasis on its effects on gay id...
This book explores the ever-changing interconnections between bodies, subjectivities, space, beach cultures and tourism, engaging with the geographies of the beach: its makings, boundaries and meanings for the West. Drawing on feminist scholarship, Christine Metusela and Gordon Waitt explore the reciprocal relationship between bodies and beaches, focusing on the shifting intersection between age, race, class, sex, gender and national discourses that naturalise particular bodies as belonging on the beach. The authors critically examine how subjectivities of bodies are produced under...
This book explores the ever-changing interconnections between bodies, subjectivities, space, beach cultures and tourism, engaging with the geograph...
