TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peel,Victoria
AU  - Sørensen,Anders
TI  - Exploring the Use and Impact of Travel Guidebooks
T2  - Tourism and Cultural Change
SN  - 9781845415631
AV  - G153.4 .P44 2016
U1  - 910 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Bristol, UK, Blue Ridge Summit, PA : 
PB  - Channel View Publications, 
KW  - Tourism
KW  - Travel
KW  - Guidebooks
KW  - Communication studies
KW  - Cultural studies
KW  - Tourism industry
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Guidebook conceptualisation
KW  - Guidebook history
KW  - Guidebook research critique
KW  - Guidebook use
KW  - Guidebooks and destination development
KW  - Travel guidebook
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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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