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The Semiotics of Heritage Tourism / Emma Waterton, Steve Watson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Tourism and Cultural Change ; 35Publisher: Bristol, UK; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Channel View Publications, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (152 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845414214
  • 9781845414221
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.4833091724 23
LOC classification:
  • G156.5.H47 W37 2014
  • G156.5.H47 W37 2014eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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