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Exploring the Use and Impact of Travel Guidebooks / Victoria Peel, Anders Sørensen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Tourism and Cultural Change ; 48Publisher: Bristol, UK; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Channel View Publications, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845415631
  • 9781845415648
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 910 23
LOC classification:
  • G153.4 .P44 2016
  • G153.4 .P44 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: Travel Guidebooks and Tourism Discourse -- 2. Conceptualising Travel Guidebooks -- 3. Guidebook Histories -- 4. Travel Guidebooks as Text -- 5. According to the Guidebook: Exploring Lonely Planet's Australia -- 7. Slaves to the Guidebook? Exploring Guidebook Usage -- 9. Permission to Coast? Travel Guidebooks and Tourism Businesses -- 10. 'Countdown to Doomsday'? Guidebook Agency in Destination Development -- 11. Transformations in the Age of e-Tourism: The End of the Guidebook As We Know It? -- 12. The Stigma of Guidebooks: Causes and Questions -- References -- Index
Summary: This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of travel guidebooks and their conceptualisation, use and impact. Guidebooks have been key tourism paraphernalia for almost two centuries and although researched in some areas, academic knowledge on guidebooks in tourism has not been expansively communicated. The uncritical, unreflective and largely pejorative approach to guidebooks in the public sphere, and to some degree also present in academia, is reassessed in this book. This challenges the current limited tourism research approaches to the topic, including the routinely held assumption that the internet has all but destroyed the printed guidebook. This book will be a useful resource for postgraduate students and researchers in tourism and tourism communications and consumption. 
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781845415648

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: Travel Guidebooks and Tourism Discourse -- 2. Conceptualising Travel Guidebooks -- 3. Guidebook Histories -- 4. Travel Guidebooks as Text -- 5. According to the Guidebook: Exploring Lonely Planet's Australia -- 7. Slaves to the Guidebook? Exploring Guidebook Usage -- 9. Permission to Coast? Travel Guidebooks and Tourism Businesses -- 10. 'Countdown to Doomsday'? Guidebook Agency in Destination Development -- 11. Transformations in the Age of e-Tourism: The End of the Guidebook As We Know It? -- 12. The Stigma of Guidebooks: Causes and Questions -- References -- Index

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This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of travel guidebooks and their conceptualisation, use and impact. Guidebooks have been key tourism paraphernalia for almost two centuries and although researched in some areas, academic knowledge on guidebooks in tourism has not been expansively communicated. The uncritical, unreflective and largely pejorative approach to guidebooks in the public sphere, and to some degree also present in academia, is reassessed in this book. This challenges the current limited tourism research approaches to the topic, including the routinely held assumption that the internet has all but destroyed the printed guidebook. This book will be a useful resource for postgraduate students and researchers in tourism and tourism communications and consumption. 

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)

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