Great Expectations

Imagination and Anticipation in Tourism
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-85745-277-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 34, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 468 g

Reihe: New Directions in Anthropology

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Skinner, Jonathan

Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Reise & Urlaub: Führer, Landkarten, Pläne

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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. Emberá 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

Über Autor(innen)

Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos is a Reader at the University of Kent. He is the author of Troubles with Turtles: Cultural Understandings of the Environment on a Greek Island (Berghahn 2003), and editor of When Greeks Think about Turks: The View from Anthropology (Routledge 2006) and United in Discontent: Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism and Globalization (Berghahn Books 2009).

Skinner, Jonathan
Jonathan Skinner is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast. He is the author of Before the Volcano: Reverberations of Identity on Montserrat (Arawak Publications 2004) and co-editor of Managing Island Life (University of Abertay Press 2006).

Jonathan Skinner is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast. He is the author of Before the Volcano: Reverberations of Identity on Montserrat (Arawak Publications 2004) and co-editor of Managing Island Life (University of Abertay Press 2006).