1st Edition

Regimes of Value in Tourism

Edited By Emilie Crossley, David Picard Copyright 2016
108 Pages
by Routledge

108 Pages
by Routledge

106 Pages
by Routledge

Drawing from ethnographic work in five continents, this book demonstrates how different regimes of value in tourism can coexist, collide, and compete across a varied geographic terrain. Much theory in tourism economics defines ‘value’ as a measure of monetary worth, a concept governing commodity exchange, and a gauge for tourist satisfaction. The research included in this volume shows that... Read more

1. Introduction: Regimes of value in tourism  Émilie Crossley and David Picard

2. Tourism as theatre: performing and consuming indigeneity in an Australian wildlife sanctuary  David Picard, Celmara Pocock and David Trigger

3. Shifting values of ‘primitiveness’ among the Zafimaniry of Madagascar: an anthropological approach to tourist mediators’ discourses  Fabiola Mancinelli

4. Branding Copán: valuing cultural distinction in an archaeological tourism destination  Lena Mortensen

5. Values of property (properties of value): capitalization of kinship in Norway  Simone Abram

6. Value of silence: mediating aural environments in Estonian rural tourism  Maarja Kaaristo

7. From tourist to person: the value of intimacy in touristic Cuba  Valerio Simoni

Biography

Émilie Crossley is a critical psychologist whose work explores tourist subjectivity from the perspective of psychosocial studies. She holds a PhD from Cardiff University, UK, and currently works at Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand. Her research interests include volunteer tourism, tourists’ perceptions of poverty, spatialities of care, and longitudinal methods.

David Picard is an anthropologist working at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, with research interests in tourism and travel culture, hospitality, nature conservation, science & epistemology, and winemaking. He has led research projects in the Indian Ocean, Australia, Portugal and South America/Antarctica.