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Proximity and Intraregional Aspects of Tourism book cover

1st Edition

Proximity and Intraregional Aspects of Tourism

Edited By Jelmer Jeuring, Inmaculada Diaz Soria Copyright 2018
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge
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Tourism research often tends to overlook both the mundane of the exotic and the exotic of the everyday. However, when acknowledging that exoticism is not necessarily linked to geographical distance, it is similarly possible to attribute touristic otherness to and experience unfamiliarity in a geographically proximate environment. This entails a need to rethink the intertwining relationships of... Read more

1. Introduction: Proximity and intraregional aspects of tourism Jelmer Jeuring and Inmaculada Diaz-Soria

2. Beyond the everyday? Rethinking place meanings in tourism Jingfu Chen and Ningning Chen

3. Tourist territorialisation and geographies of opportunity at the edges of mass destinations Robin Biddulph

4. Immigrant hosts and intra-regional travel Tom Griffin

5. Socio-cultural proximity, daily life and shopping tourism in the Dutch–German border region Bianca B. Szytniewski, Bas Spierings and Martin van der Velde

6. Everyday life and water tourism mobilities: mundane aspects of canal travel Maarja Kaaristo and Steven Rhoden

7. Being a tourist as a chosen experience in a proximity destination Inmaculada Diaz-Soria

8. The challenge of proximity: the (un)attractiveness of near-home tourism destinations Jelmer Hendrik Gerard Jeuring and Tialda Haartsen

Biography

Jelmer Jeuring obtained a PhD degree from the Cultural Geography Department of the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He has published also on topics around the societal impact of (extreme) weather, within and beyond the field of tourism.

Inmaculada Diaz-Soria is a Ph.D. researcher at the Research Centre on Work, Organizations and Policies, CNRS, University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, France. She is also a member of TUDISTAR research group in which she has participated in several projects related to new trends in tourism. Her current Ph.D. research focuses on tourism impacts on individual's relationships with places.

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