1st Edition

Real Tourism Practice, Care, and Politics in Contemporary Travel Culture

Edited By Claudio Minca, Tim Oakes Copyright 2012
280 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Over the past decade, tourism studies has broken out of its traditional institutional affiliation with business and management programs to take its legitimate place as an interdisciplinary social science field of cutting edge scholarship. The field has emerged as central to ongoing debates in social theory concerning such diverse topics as postcolonialism, mobility, and postmodernism, to name... Read more

1. Real Tourism Claudio Minca and Tim Oakes  2. No Country for Old Men Claudio Minca  3. Time to Hostess. Reflections on Borderless Care Eeva Jokinen and Soile Veijola  4. The Rhythms of Tourism Tim Edensor  5. The Rime of the Frequent Flyer. Or, What the Elephant has got in his Trunk Steven Flusty  6. Touring Modernities: Disordered Tourism in China Tim Oakes  7. Practicing Tourist Landscapes: Photographic Performances and Consumption of Nature in Japanese Domestic Tourism Eriko Yasue and Kazuo Murakami  8. Medical Tourism, Medical Exile: Responding to the Cross-Border Pursuit of Healthcare in Malaysia Meghann Ormond  9. Post-Ethical Tours: Corporate Social Responsibility in Tourism Harng Luh Sin  10. Tourism and the Question of Poverty Saithong Phommavong  11. Post-War Tours Jamie Gillen

Biography

Claudio Minca is Head and Professor of the Cultural Geography Department at Wageningen University, The Netherlands, and Research Professor of Geography at Royal Holloway, the University of London, UK. 

Tim Oakes is Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.