Tourism in National Capitals and Global Change (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Maitland, Robert

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the phenomenon of capital city tourism, and uses recent research to examines the appeal of 'capitalness' to tourists, and explores developments in capitals across the world.

This book was published as a special issue of Current Issues in Tourism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317850076
• Artikelnr.: 57081808

Autorenporträt

Robert Maitland is Professor of City Tourism and Director of the Centre for Tourism Research at the University of Westminster, London. His research focuses on the tourist experience of cities, in particular world cities and national capitals. Current research examines tourism and everyday life, new tourist areas in London and social tourism.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Global change and tourism in national capitals 2.
Capitalness is contingent: tourism and national capitals in a globalised
world 3. How 'capital' are capital cities on the Internet? 4. Hold back the
night: Nuit Blanche and all-night events in capital cities 5. Commemorative
events and heritage in former capitals: a case study of Melbourne 6. Out of
the Soviet Union: the re-emergence of R¿ga as a tourist capital 7. Capital
cities as open-air museums: a look at Québec City and Tunis 8. Towards
reviving post-Olympic Athens as a cultural destination 9. Budapest: from
socialist heritage to cultural capital? 10. Imagining the nation:
signifiers of national capital status in Washington, DC and Canberra 11.
Outward versus inward orientation of island capitals: the case of Valletta