Travels in Paradox: Remapping Tourism

by Kathleen M. Adams

This innovative volume focuses on tourism through the twin lenses of cultural theory and cultural geography. Presenting a set of innovative case studies on tourist places around the world, the contributors explore the paradoxes of the tourist experience and the implications of these paradoxes for our broader understanding of modern identity as simultaneously grounded and mobile. The book examines how tourism reveals the paradoxical ways that places...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742528766
• ISBN13: 9780742528765
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 8.9"