Backpackers have shifted from the margins of the travel industry into the global spotlight. This volume explores the international backpacker phenomenon, drawing together different disciplinary perspectives on its meaning, impact and significance. Links are drawn between theory and practice, setting backpacking in its wider social, cultural and economic context.
Backpackers have shifted from the margins of the travel industry into the global spotlight. This volume explores the international backpacker pheno...
Processes of globalization, economic restructuring and urban redevelopment have placed events at the centre of strategies for change in cities. Events offer the potential to achieve economic, social, cultural and environmental outcomes within broader urban development strategies. This volume:
analyzes the process of cultural event development, management and marketing and links these processes to their wider cultural, social and economic context
provides a unique blend of practical and academic analysis, with a selection of major events and festivals in cities where...
Processes of globalization, economic restructuring and urban redevelopment have placed events at the centre of strategies for change in cities. Eve...
This book investigates the way localities are shaped and negotiated through tourism, and explores the emerging success of local peer-produced hospitality and tourism services which are transforming the tourist experience. Tourists are now being brought into much closer contact with locals and have new opportunities to experience the community at their destination. This book examines these place experiences and travel-sharing arrangements that have now spread globally due to the use of social communication platforms such as Airbnb. It analyses the existence of global communities of 'place...
This book investigates the way localities are shaped and negotiated through tourism, and explores the emerging success of local peer-produced hospi...
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Original and thought-provoking, this book investigates how creative experiences, interactions, and place-specific dynamics and contexts are shaping the expanding field of creative tourism across the globe. Exploring the evolution of research in this field, the authors investigate pathways for future research that advance conceptual questions and...
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative wa...
This insightful book reappraises how traditional high culture attractions have been supplemented by popular culture events, contemporary creativity and everyday life through inventive styles of tourism. Greg Richards draws on over three decades of research to provide a new approach to the topic, combining practice and interaction ritual theories and developing a model of cultural tourism as a social practice. Taking readers on a concise journey from the 1900s to the present day, Rethinking Cultural Tourism examines the evolution of cultural tourism and the resulting consequences,...
This insightful book reappraises how traditional high culture attractions have been supplemented by popular culture events, contemporary creativity an...
