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This book deals with tourism, popular culture and daily life in Japan. It is written in an accessible style and will be of interest to tourists considering visiting Japan, Japanophiles, social scientists and humanities scholars with interests in Japan, and students taking courses in tourism, Japanese culture, cultural studies and consumer culture.

This book is the first to explore the relationship between tourism and Brexit from a social science perspective. Contributors from around the world use international examples to examine three entwined themes integral to tourism: travel, borders and identity. It will be useful for students and researchers in tourism, migration and European studies.

This is the first book to exclusively address tourism and indigenous peoples in the circumpolar North. It examines how tourism in indigenous communities is influenced by academic and political discourses and how communities are influenced by tourism. The volume seeks to challenge stereotypical understandings of indigenousness and indigeneity.

This book offers new approaches and insights into the relationships between heritage tourism and notions of modernity, identity building and sustainable development in China. It demonstrates that the role of the state, politics, institutional arrangements and tradition have a considerable impact on perceptions of these notions.

This book develops the historical dimension to tourism studies through thematic case studies. Contributions explore the relationships between tourism, representations, environments and identities in settings ranging from the global to the local, from the Roman Empire to the twentieth century, and from Frinton to the 'Far East'.

This book provides a global examination of the relationships between archaeology and tourism. It offers a critical analysis of current issues and implications from both tourism and archaeological perspectives. It will be useful for students, researchers and practitioners in tourism, archaeology, cultural heritage management and anthropology.

This book provides a global examination of the relationships between archaeology and tourism. It offers a critical analysis of current issues and implications from both tourism and archaeological perspectives. It will be useful for students, researchers and practitioners in tourism, archaeology, cultural heritage management and anthropology.

This book examines the nexus between exploring and tourism and argues that exploration travel - based heavily on explorer narratives and the promises of personal challenges and change - is a major trend in future tourism.

The role of books in framing travel imaginings is an important social and cultural phenomenon. This book explores how reading books influences the way in which we understand travel and the tourist experience. It covers a variety of genres of books, from children's books and historical fiction, to westerns, science fiction and crime fiction.

Focusing on the formative influence of the works of John Ruskin in defining and developing cultural tourism, this book describes and assesses their effects on the 'tourist gaze' ('where to go and what to see', and how to see it) as directed at landscape, scenery, architecture and townscape, from the early Victorian period onwards.

This volume explores the relationship between tourism and travel texts and contemporary society, and how each is shaped by the other. A multimodal analysis is used to look at a variety of texts including novels, travel brochures, blogs and videos.

This book presents a new way of understanding heritage tourism that focuses on what people feel and not just what they see. Traditionally, semiotics points to the study of signs and symbols, and how we use them to make sense of the world. Here semiotics is extended into our other senses as part of what it means to experience heritage as tourists.

This book examines the sugar and tourism relationship in the context of globalization by identifying destination transitions from sugar to tourism. It profiles the role of sugar in colonization, enslavement, decolonization and postcolonial tourism, offering examples of sugar heritage in tourism from Europe, South America, Asia and North America.

This book examines the sugar and tourism relationship in the context of globalization by identifying destination transitions from sugar to tourism. It profiles the role of sugar in colonization, enslavement, decolonization and postcolonial tourism, offering examples of sugar heritage in tourism from Europe, South America, Asia and North America.

This book explores the ever-changing relationships between bodies, oceans, beaches and tourism. Drawing on feminist scholarship, the book focuses on the emergence of Australian beach cultures beyond metropolitan centres from the early 19th century to the early 20th century on the Illawarra beaches, some 80 kilometres south of Sydney.

This book situates souvenirs as tangible and intangible cultural expressions and triggers of tourism experience that are 'glocally' developed on the margins. The authors gain new insights with this critique that situates souvenirs of place, people and experience as constructions of transnational lives, migration and global tourism.

This book situates souvenirs as tangible and intangible cultural expressions and triggers of tourism experience that are 'glocally' developed on the margins. The authors gain new insights with this critique that situates souvenirs of place, people and experience as constructions of transnational lives, migration and global tourism.

This book draws together case-studies which explore the changing relationships between port and resort activities in a cross-section of European maritime settings over 3 centuries. It will interest academics in tourism studies, geography and cultural studies, as well as providing information and analysis for policy makers in coastal regeneration.

This ethnographic study involves periods of participant observation of charter tourists to the resorts of Palmanova and Magaluf on Mallorca. The book focuses on three key areas of social life: space, the body, and food and drink practices to explore issues relating to understandings of and constructions of British identity.

This book represents a shifting of emphasis away from the discourse of authenticity to the process of authenticating ethnic tourism. It focuses upon what authentication is, how it works, who is involved, and what are the problems in the process. It explores an intricate tourism-ethnicity relationship in the context of Hainan Island, China.

This book focuses on perspectives from and on the global south, providing fresh data and analyses on languages in African, Caribbean, Middle-Eastern and Asian tourism contexts. It provides a critical perspective on tourism in postcolonial and neocolonial settings, explored through in-depth case studies.

Building on previous work on backpacking, this book takes the analysis of backpacker tourism further by engaging both with new theoretical debates into tourism experiences and mobilities as well as with new empirical phenomena such as the rise of the 'flashpacker' and alternative destinations.

Aspects of global coffee culture are explored as they relate to the settings where the beverage is produced, prepared and consumed as part of coffee related tourism. The book examines the potential of such tourism for developing tourism destinations, products and experiences as well as improving the livelihoods of coffee producers.

Aspects of global coffee culture are explored as they relate to the settings where the beverage is produced, prepared and consumed as part of coffee related tourism. The book examines the potential of such tourism for developing tourism destinations, products and experiences as well as improving the livelihoods of coffee producers.

This text explores tourism websites as mediums of identity construction and promotion. As interactive modes of communication, tourism websites for nations, cities, and attractions function critically in the new capitalism as calls for social action in contributing to economic and social rebirth, growth, and preservation.

This groundbreaking book examines the relationship between power, culture and tourism in Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Australia and South East Asia. It illustrates how culture shapes tourism development, is commodified, and becomes a tool in political and economic strategies and struggles.

Tourists and Travellers explores the ways in which travel and tourism in Scotland changed during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, focusing on the writings of five women - Sarah Murray, Anne Grant, Dorothy Wordsworth, Sarah Hazlitt and the anonymous author of A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland.

This book of cases about rural tourism development in Canada demonstrates the different ways that tourism has been positioned as a local response to political and economic shifts in a nation that is itself undergoing rapid change, both continentally and globally.

This ethnographic study provides a holistic, multi-stakeholder view of the first twenty years of tourism development in a remote region of Eastern Indonesia. It examines how tourism is intertwined with life in a non-western, marginal community and analyses tourism and sociocultural change, conflict, globalisation, poverty and powerlessness.

This book is a comprehensive analysis of educational tours to Israel for Jewish youth, based on the author's empirical research. The tours are explored from multiple aspects including: history, education, population and comparison of sub-populations, ethnic and religious identity, adolescence, marketing, staff, organization and logistics.