1st Edition

Tourism, Power and Space

By Andrew Church, Tim Coles Copyright 2007
312 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

312 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

312 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This is the first volume to explicitly consider how leisure and tourism acts as a major focus by which power may be understood in a geographical context. Key thinking and major approaches to unravelling the complexities of power are outlined in this collection and their relevance to current and future tourism studies is discussed. Tourism, Power and Space blends theoretical perspectives from... Read more

1 Tourism, politics and the forgotten entanglements of power

TIM COLES AND ANDREW CHURCH

SECTION 1: POWER, PERFORMANCE AND PRACTICE

2 The power of the tourist encounter

DAVID CROUCH

3 Adventure tourism: will to power?

CARL CATER

4 Disability legislation and the empowerment of disabled tourists in the United Kingdom

GARETH SHAW

5 Tourism, nation and power: a Foucauldian perspective of ‘Australia’s’ Ghan Train

CAROLINE WINTER

SECTION 2: POWER, PROPERTY AND RESOURCES

6 The politics of bed units: growth control in the resort of Whistler, British Columbia.

ALISON GILL

7 Pedestrian shopping streets and urban tourism in the restructuring of the the Chinese City.

ALAN LEW

8 Power, Resource Mobilisation and Leisure Conflict on Inland Rivers in England

ANDREW CHURCH AND NEIL RAVENSCROFT

SECTION 3: POWER, GOVERNANCE AND EMPOWERMENT

9 Empowerment and Stakeholder Participation in Tourism Destination Communities.

DALLEN J. TIMOTHY

10 Prosecuting Power: Tourism, Inter-Cultural Communications and the Tactics of Empowerment

TIM COLES AND NICOLAI SCHERLE

11 Tourism, Governance and the (Mis-)Location of power.

C. MICHAEL HALL

12 Tourism and the Many Faces of Power

ANDREW CHURCH AND TIM COLES

Biography

Andrew Church is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Brighton.

Tim Coles is University Business Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Management in the School of Business and Economics at the University of Exeter.