Channel View Publications Identity and Intercultural Exchange in Travel and Tourism (Tourism and Cultural Change)

Product Description This book looks at the relationship between questions of identity formation and modern practices in travelling and tourism. Unprecedented levels of mobility and international exchange over the last 100 years have raised questions about the stability of national and personal identities and new and creative patterns of behaviour and self-realisation are now emerging due to the enormous commercial interests that lie behind the modern travel and tourism industries. The volume will consider these issues and the challenges they create in various geographical contexts (Germany, Spain, Romania, Italy, Africa) and concludes with a number of case studies from the Portuguese context, where the revenues from tourism are integral to its economy and a lifeline in the current economic crisis. Review This book provides an exciting discussion of travel and tourism, and drives the reader into matters of great academic and practical interest. Even if the discussion is mostly centered on travel and tourism, the debate launches bridges for tourism planning and management, and is a source of inspiration for the creation of new businesses. --Carlos Costa, University of Aveiro, Portugal The intersection of tourism, culture, place and identity are cleverly explored in this edited collection. The authors provide a fresh perspective on a variety of issues from dark tourism to travel writing. Conceptually diverse with rich insights, researchers interested in exploring identity and tourism will find this thoughtful volume well worth reading. --Leanne White, Victoria University, Australia About the Author Anthony David Barker is an Associate Professor of English Culture at the University of Aveiro, Portugal and coordinator of a research team working on 'Cultural Flows and Literary Mediations'. He has worked in cultural studies-related fields for over 25 years and his research interests include film narrative and genre. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Identity and Intercultural Exchange in Travel and Tourism By Anthony David Barker Multilingual Matters Copyright © 2015 Anthony David Barker and the authors of individual chapters All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-84541-463-4 Contents Contributors, Introduction, Part 1: Exchanging Places, 1 The Business of Creative Tourism and Creativity in the Tourism Business Noémia Bárbara, 2 Negotiating Mobility: On the Slow Move Marzena Kubisz, 3 Mein Mallorca: A German–Spanish Love Affair Petra M. Bagley, 4 Commercial Cinema, Location Shooting and 'the Tourism Effect' Anthony David Barker, 5 Nature, Culture and the Genesis of the Concept of Travel Silvio Lima Figueiredo, Part 2: Narratives of Travel and Identity, 6 The Appeal of Otherness: Reconstructions of Self in Contemporary Travel Writing María del Pino Santana Quintana, 7 Representations of Maramures in Contemporary Female Travel Writing: Dervla Murphy, Caroline Juler and Bronwen Riley Marius-Mircea Crisan, 8 Tourist Experience in Narrative Fiction: E.M. Forster's A Room with a View Fernanda Luísa Feneja, 9 Deaths in Venice: Dying for a Holiday Anthony David Barker, 10 Peregrinating Objects: Consumptive Capacities of the Traveller's Personal Items in Robert Byron's The Road to Oxiana and Jason Elliot's Unexpected Light Monika Kowalczyk-Piaseczna, 11 Travelling in/to Africa: Narratives of Postcolonial Encounters Ana Luísa Pires, Part 3: The Case of Portugal, 12 Mythical Moors: Constructing a Cultural Tourist Itinerary Around Valpaços Jenny Campos, Maria Manuel Baptista and Larissa Latif, 13 (O)Porto: A Wine, a Place, a Route and a Meeting Point Joana Ferraz Ribeiro and Gillian Moreira, 14 Cultural Interfaces and Perceptions of Space: A Polish–Portuguese Comparative Study Danuta Gabrys-Barker, 15 Eating Portugal: Translating Food Susan Howcroft, CHAPTER 1 The Business of Creative Tourism and Creativity in the Tourism Business Noémia Bárbara You cannot use up creativity