Cities and visitors : regulating people, markets, and city space /
The authors of this book use regulation theory to bring theoretical focus and analytic clarity to the study of urban tourism. The book opens and closes with chapters that analyze urban tourism within the context of a restructured global economy and its interaction with local and global cultural tend...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2003.
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| Series: | Studies in urban and social change.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The authors of this book use regulation theory to bring theoretical focus and analytic clarity to the study of urban tourism. The book opens and closes with chapters that analyze urban tourism within the context of a restructured global economy and its interaction with local and global cultural tendencies. The editors and contributors emphasize the role of the state at different spatial scales in the production of the tourist city, examine the ways in which urban images are created, and investigate the place of sports, art museums, and other cultural forms in creating the tourism milieu. Original chapters written by leading scholars illuminate their theoretical perspective with studies of Venice, Mexico, Montreal, New York, Los Angeles, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, and Australia's Gold Coast. These studies are grouped into four categories: regulating tourists, city space, labor markets, and the tourism industry. The regulation framework allows the editors and contributors to show how the political, economic, and cultural elements of urban tourism constitute an interwoven whole. |
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| Item Description: | Papers generated by a research collective, the International Tourism Research Group (ITRG), funded by the Council for European Studies, whose member scholars first met in Amsterdam in April 1998 and subsequently in Montreal and in Barcelona. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 261 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780470773673 0470773677 140514341X 9781405143417 1280199423 9781280199424 9781405100588 1405100583 9781405100595 1405100591 9786610199426 6610199426 0470793724 9780470793725 |