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Title Cultures of mass tourism : doing the Mediterranean in the age of banal mobilities / edited by Pau Obrador Pons, Mike Crang, Penny Travlou.

Publication Info. Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (181 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series New directions in tourism analysis
New directions in tourism analysis.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : taking Mediterranean tourists seriously / Pau Obrador Pons, Mike Crang and Penny Travlou -- Morocco : restaging colonialism for the masses / Claudio Minca and Rachele Borghi -- Banal tourism? Between cosmopolitanism and orientalism / Michael Haldrup -- The island that was not there : producing Corelli's island, staging Kefalonia / Mike Crang and Penny Travlou -- The Mediterranean pool : cultivating hospitality in the coastal hotel / Pau Obrador Pons -- 'De Veraneo en la Playa' : belonging and the familiar in Mediterranean mass tourism / Javier Caletrío -- Hosts and guests, guests and hosts : British residential tourism in the Costa del Sol / Karen O'Reilly -- Mobile practice and youth tourism / Dan Knox -- Corrupted seas : the Mediterranean in the age of mass mobility / Pau Obrador Pons, Mike Crang and Penny Travlou.
Summary Cultures of Mass Tourism discusses how mass tourism has brought about new social and cultural formations that mix global, national and local influences and offers a series of insights into some of the key sites. It looks at the new forms and spaces created, as well as the social practices and materialities of mass tourism to provide an thorough analysis of the subject.
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Subject Tourism -- Mediterranean Region -- Marketing.
Tourism.
Mediterranean Region.
Marketing.
Culture and tourism -- Mediterranean Region.
Culture and tourism.
Package tours -- Mediterranean Region.
Package tours.
Mediterranean Region -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Mediterranean Region -- Economic conditions.
Economic conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Pons, Pau Obrador.
Crang, Mike.
Travlou, Penny.
Other Form: Print version: Cultures of mass tourism. Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009 9780754672135 0754672131 (DLC) 2009016975 (OCoLC)319514244
ISBN 9780754697763 (electronic book)
0754697762 (electronic book)
0754672131 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9780754672135 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9780754672135 (hardback ; alkaline paper)