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Title Tourism, diasporas, and space / edited by Tim Coles and Dallen J. Timothy.

Publication Info. London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2004.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 302 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility ; 2
Routledge studies in contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility ; 2.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 'My field is the world': conceptualizing diasporas, travel and tourism / Tim Coles and Dallen J. Timothy. -- Tourism and third space populations: the restless motion of diaspora peoples / Keith Hollinshead. -- Conceptualizing return visits: a transnational perspective / David Timothy Duval. -- Tourism, racism and the UK Afro-Caribbean diaspora / Marcus L. Stephenson. -- Linking diasporas and tourism: transnational mobilities of Pacific Islanders resident in New Zealand / C. Michael Hall and David Timothy Duval. -- Jewish past as a 'foreign country': the travel experiences of American Jews / Dimitri Ioannides and Mara Cohen Ioannides. -- American children of the African diaspora: journeys to the motherland / Dallen J. Timothy and Victor B. Teye. -- Preparation, simulation and the creation of community: Exodus and the case of diaspora education tourism / Erik H. Cohen. -- 'To stand in the shoes of my ancestors': tourism and genealogy / Kevin Meethan.
The 'isle of home' is always on your mind: subjectivity and space at Ellis Island Immigration Museum / Joanne Maddern. -- The culture of tourism in the diaspora: the case of the Vietnamese community in Australia / Thu-Huong Nguyen and Brian King. -- Mobilizing Hrvatsko: tourism and politics in the Croatian diaspora / Sean Carter. -- Sojourners, guanxi and clan associations: social capital and overseas Chinese tourism to China / Alan A. Lew and Alan Wong. -- Diaspora, cultural capital and the production of tourism: lessons from enticing Jewish-Americans to Germany / Tim Coles. -- Mae 'n Bryd I ddod Adref -- It's time to come home: exploring the contested emotional geographies of Wales / Nigel Morgan and Annette Pritchard. -- India and the ambivalences of diaspora tourism / Kevin Hannam. -- Reinventing Tulip Time: evolving diasporic Dutch heritage celebration in Holland (Michigan) / Deborah Che. -- Selling diaspora: producing and segmenting the Jewish diaspora tourism market / Noga Collins-Kreiner and Dan Olsen. -- Tourism and diasporas: current issues and future opportunities / Dallen J. Timothy and Tim Coles.
Summary The book introduces the main features and constructs of diasporas, and explores their implications for the consumption, production and practices of tourism.
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Subject Tourism -- Social aspects.
Tourism -- Social aspects.
Travelers -- Attitudes.
Travelers -- Attitudes.
Travelers.
Ethnicity.
Ethnicity.
Identity (Psychology)
Identity (Psychology)
Emigration and immigration.
Emigration and immigration.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Coles, Tim.
Timothy, Dallen J.
Other Form: Print version: Tourism, diasporas, and space. London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2004 0415311241 (DLC) 2003023380 (OCoLC)53287832
ISBN 0203458389 (electronic book)
9780203458389 (electronic book)
0415311241 (Cloth)