TY  - BOOK
AU  - Waterton,Emma
AU  - Watson,Steve
TI  - The Semiotics of Heritage Tourism
T2  - Tourism and Cultural Change
SN  - 9781845414214
AV  - G156.5.H47 W37 2014
U1  - 303.4833091724 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Bristol, UK, Blue Ridge Summit, PA : 
PB  - Channel View Publications, 
KW  - Culture
KW  - Semiotic models
KW  - Heritage tourism
KW  - Human geography
KW  - Tourism industry
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - heritage sites
KW  - human geography
KW  - meaning-making
KW  - semiotics
KW  - sensuality
KW  - tourists
KW  - visuality
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; 1. An Introduction --; 2. Advancing Theory --; 3. Signing the Past --; 4. Marketing the Past --; 5. Remembering --; 6. Living with the Past --; 7. Conclusions --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - This book is a fast-paced and thorough re-evaluation of what heritage tourism means to the people who experience it. It draws on contemporary thinking in human geography and heritage studies, and applies it to a sector of tourism that is both pervasive yet poorly researched in terms of the perspective of tourists themselves. In a series of lucid and tightly argued chapters, it traces the use of semiotics as an analytical tool from its theoretical origins in text, through the all-important dynamics of visuality into an expanded realm of feeling and sensuality. Challenging assumptions about the way that heritage is experienced, this book uses examples from around the world to explore the semiotic landscape that surrounds heritage sites, linking what is represented about the past and how it feels to be there
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21832/9781845414221
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781845414221
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