Tourism Imaginaries at the Disciplinary Crossroads

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Tourism Imaginaries at the Disciplinary Crossroads is written by Maria Gravari-Barbas and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1317009460 (ISBN 10) and 9781317009467 (ISBN 13).

Providing a unique analysis of current multidisciplinary research on the complex relationships between tourism and the imaginaries of tourist destinations, this book traces the links between tourism imaginaries and their religious (heaven) and political (utopia) antecedents. The substantive chapters are organised into three main thematic sections, the first explores the touristic production and consumption of place imaginaries, the second analyses the way places are practiced through imaginaries and the role imaginaries play in the tourist experience and the final section explores the way images and the media participate in the creation of tourism imaginaries.