Great Expectations : Imagination and Anticipation in Tourism (New Directions in Anthropology) （Library Binding）

Skinner, Jonathan (EDT)/ Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios (EDT)

Berghahn Books（2011/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 232 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780857452771
• DDC分類 338.4791

Full Description

The negotiation of expectations in tourism is a complex and dynamic process - one that is central to the imagination of cultural difference. Expectations not only affect the lives and experiences of tourists, but also their hosts, and play an important part in the success or failure of the overall tourism experience. It is for this reason, the authors argue, that special attention should be given to how expectations constitute and sustain tourism. The case studies presented here explore what fuels the desires to visit particular places, to what degree expectations inform the experience of the place, and the frequent disjunctions between tourist expectations and experiences. Careful attention is paid to how the imagination of the visitor inspires the imagination of the host, and vice-versa; how tourists and host communities actively imagine, re-imagine, and shape each other's lives. This realization, has profound consequences, not solely for academic analysis, but for all those who participate in and work within the tourism industry.

Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction:The Play of Expectation in Tourism Jonathan Skinner & Dimitrios Theodossopoulos Chapter 2. Success and Access to Knowledge in the Tourist-local Encounter: Confrontations with the Unexpected in a Turkish Community Hazel Tucker Chapter 3. Embera Indigenous Tourism and the World of Expectations Dimitrios Theodossopoulos Chapter 4. The Paradox of Gaze and Resistance in Native American Cultural Tourism: An Alaskan Case Study Alexis Celeste Bunten Chapter 5. Forward into the past: 'Digging' the Balearic Islands Jacqueline Waldren Chapter 6. On Difference, Desire, and the Aesthetics of the Unexpected: The White Masai in Kenyan Tourism George Paul Meiu Chapter 7. Displeasure on 'Pleasure Island': tourist expectation and desire on and off the Cuban dance floor Jonathan Skinner Chapter 8. The Coach Fellas: Tourism performance and expectation in Ireland Kelli Ann Malone Chapter 9. Going on Holiday to Imagine War: The Western Front Battlefields as Sites of Commemoration and Contestation Jennifer Iles Chapter 10. Touring the Dead: Imagination, Embodiment and Affect in Gunter Von Hagen's Body Worlds Exhibitions Jane Desmond Chapter 11. Afterword: The Tour as Imagined, Lived, Experienced, and Told Ed Bruner Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index