Seductions of place : geographical perspectives on globalization and touristed landscapes
by
 
Lew, Alan A.

Title
Seductions of place : geographical perspectives on globalization and touristed landscapes

Author
Lew, Alan A.

ISBN
9780415192187
 
9780415192194

Publication Information
London : Routledge, 2005.

Physical Description
xii, 340 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Series
Critical geographies

Series Title
Critical geographies

General Note
Formerly CIP.

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 -- Tourism development and seascapes of the Caribbean : uncertain images / Janet Henshall Momsen -- The contested beach : resistance and resort development in Antigua, West Indies / Jeff Baldwin -- Desiring Ahimsa, 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.

Subject Term
Geographical perception.
 
Landscape assessment.
 
Tourism -- Social aspects.
 
Human geography.

Added Author
Lew, Alan A.
 
Cartier, Carolyn L.

Electronic Access
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0414/2004002731.html
 
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0649/2004002731-d.html


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