TOURISM MOBILITIES: PLACES TO PLAY, PLACES IN PLAY; ED. BY MIMI SHELLER

Many places around the world are being produced, converted, interpreted and made fit for tourist consumption. This fascinating book analyzes tourist performances such as walking, shopping, sunbathing, photographing, eating and clubbing, and studies why, and indeed how, some places become global centres whilst others don’t. Arranged in four distinct parts, it considers: * Performing Paradise * Performances of Global Heritage * Remaking Playful Places * New Playful Places Incorporating a wide array of empirical research and innovative international case studies, it illuminates this phenomenon: from Eco-tourism on the beach to shopping in Hong Kong, from the making of 'Cool Reykjavik' to tourism in high-rise suburbs in Paris, and from Inca heritage to medical tourism. Edited by two world authorities in tourism studies, this revealing book deploys a range of theories related to the 'mobility turn' in the social sciences in order to analyze the contingent and networked nature of how places are stabilized as fit for playful performances. Well-written and researched, with coherent analysis and presentation, this book will appeal to academics, students and those interested in the complex character of global change. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 List of illustrations......Page 9 Notes on contributors......Page 10 Preface......Page 13 Places to play, places in play......Page 14 Performing paradise......Page 24 Demobilizing and remobilizing Caribbean paradise......Page 26 Islands in the sun: Cyprus......Page 35 Ecotourists on the beach......Page 45 Surfing: global space or dwelling in the waves?......Page 57 Performances of global heritage......Page 66 Little England's global conference centre: Harrogate......Page 68 Bodies, spirits, and Incas: performing Machu Picchu......Page 80 On the track of the Vikings......Page 91 Art exhibitions travel the world......Page 103 Reconstituting the Taj Mahal: tourist flows and glocalization......Page 116 Remaking playful places......Page 130 The paradox of a tourist centre: Hong Kong as a site of play and a place of fear......Page 132 Barcelona's games: the Olympics, urban design, and global tourism......Page 144 Tourists in the concrete desert......Page 156 Favela tours: indistinct and mapless representations of the real in Rio de Janeiro......Page 168 New playful places......Page 180 Playing online and between the lines: round-the-world websites as virtual places to play......Page 182 'Let's build a palm island!': playfulness in complex times......Page 194 Atomica world: the place of nuclear tourism......Page 205 Death in Venice......Page 218 Bibliography......Page 229 Index......Page 246 Many places around the world are being produced, converted, interpreted and made fit for tourist consumption. This fascinating book analyzes tourist performances such as walking, shopping, sunbathing, photographing, eating and clubbing, and studies why, and indeed how, some places become global centres whilst others don't. Arranged in four distinct parts, Sheller and Urry consider: Performing Paradise Performances of Global Heritage Remaking Playful Places New Playful Places. Incorporating a wide array of empirical research and innovative international case studies, this fascinating book illuminates the tourist performance phenomenon: from Eco-tourism on the beach to shopping in Hong Kong, from the making of'Cool Reykjavik'to tourism in high-rise suburbs in Paris, and from Inca heritage to medical tourism. Edited by two world authorities in tourism studies, this revealing book deploys a range of theories related to the'mobility turn'in the social sciences in order to analyze the contingent and networked nature of how places are stabilized as fit for playful performances. Well-written and researched, with coherent analysis and presentation, this book will appeal to academics, students and those interested in the complex character of global change. "Through a range of case studies drawn from across the world, this book shows how places to play are also places in play: made and remade by the mobilities and performances of tourists and workers, images and heritage, the latest fashions and the newest diseases. Criss-crossed by various mobilities and performances, places are shown to 'move' as they are put into play in relation to other places."--Jacket This book shows how a diverse array of places around the world are being produced and made fit for tourist consumption. It analyzes tourist performances such as eating, shopping, waling, photographing and clubbing This book is about how places to play are also places in play: made and remade by the mobilities and performances of tourists and workers, images and heritage, the latest fashions and the newest diseases.