Proximity and Intraregional Aspects of Tourism (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Jeuring, Jelmer; Diaz Soria, Inmaculada

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The articles collected in this book examine tourism practices in a range of geographical proximity where everyday life and tourism intersect, contributing to a fresh understanding of tourism's place in society.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the Tourism Geographies journal.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351403016
• Artikelnr.: 57423230

Autorenporträt

Jelmer Jeuring obtained a PhD degree from the Cultural Geography Department of the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He has published also on topics around the societal impact of (extreme) weather, within and beyond the field of tourism. Inmaculada Diaz-Soria is a Ph.D. researcher at the Research Centre on Work, Organizations and Policies, CNRS, University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, France. She is also a member of TUDISTAR research group in which she has participated in several projects related to new trends in tourism. Her current Ph.D. research focuses on tourism impacts on individual's relationships with places.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Proximity and intraregional aspects of tourism 2. Beyond
the everyday? Rethinking place meanings in tourism 3. Tourist
territorialisation and geographies of opportunity at the edges of mass
destinations 4. Immigrant hosts and intra-regional travel 5. Socio-cultural
proximity, daily life and shopping tourism in the Dutch-German border
region 6. Everyday life and water tourism mobilities: mundane aspects of
canal travel 7. Being a tourist as a chosen experience in a proximity
destination 8. The challenge of proximity: the (un)attractiveness of
near-home tourism destinations