Identity and Intercultural Exchange in Travel and Tourism 9781845414641

This book looks at the relationship between questions of identity formation and practices in travelling and tourism. New

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Identity and Intercultural Exchange in Travel and Tourism
 9781845414641

Table of contents :
Contents
Contributors
Introduction
Part 1: Exchanging Places
1. The Business of Creative Tourism and Creativity in the Tourism Business
2. Negotiating Mobility: On the Slow Move
3. Mein Mallorca: A German–Spanish Love Affair
4. Commercial Cinema, Location Shooting and ‘the Tourism Effect’
5. Nature, Culture and the Genesis of the Concept of Travel
Part 2: Narratives of Travel and Identity
6. The Appeal of Otherness: Reconstructions of Self in Contemporary Travel Writing
7. Representations of Maramureş in Contemporary Female Travel Writing: Dervla Murphy, Caroline Juler and Bronwen Riley
8. Tourist Experience in Narrative Fiction: E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View
9. Deaths in Venice: Dying for a Holiday
10. Peregrinating Objects: Consumptive Capacities of the Traveller’s Personal Items in Robert Byron’s The Road to Oxiana and Jason Elliot’s Unexpected Light
11. Travelling in/to Africa: Narratives of Postcolonial Encounters
Part 3: The Case of Portugal
12. Mythical Moors: Constructing a Cultural Tourist Itinerary Around Valpaços
13. (O)Porto: A Wine, a Place, a Route and a Meeting Point
14. Cultural Interfaces and Perceptions of Space: A Polish–Portuguese Comparative Study
15. Eating Portugal: Translating Food

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