The British on Holiday

Charter Tourism, Identity and Consumption
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-84541-182-4
Verlag: Channel View Publications

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 356 g

This book is the only in-depth ethnographic study of British charter tourists. It is based on several months of participant observation of British charter tourists on holiday in Palmanova and Magaluf on the Mediterranean Island of Mallorca. With a focus on space, the body, and food and drink practices, the book explores the experiential nature of touristic practice which provides insight into constructions, understandings and knowledge of the self in relation to national, regional, class, and gender identities. These issues in turn highlight elements of power and control which are mainly articulated through the attempts to manipulate tourists' consumption practices by the mediators of tourists' experiences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Andrews, Hazel

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen Tourismuswirtschaft, Gastgewerbe
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Nation, Identity and Consumption

Chapter 3: Symbolic Landscapes of Tourism

Chapter 4: Consuming Spaces

Chapter 5: The Tourist Body

Chapter 6: The Embodied Tourist

Chapter 7: Consuming Tourists

Chapter 8: Conclusion: The Great Escape

Über Autor(innen)

Andrews, Hazel
Hazel Andrews is Reader in Tourism, Culture & Society at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Her research interests include issues of identity, selfhood and the body, principally in relation to tourism and travel. She is Chair of the Royal Anthropological Institutes Tourism Committee.

Hazel Andrews is Senior Lecturer in Tourism, Culture and Society in the Centre for Tourism, Events and Food Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. With a particular focus on practices of embodiment, consumption, habitus and place, her research and publications examine social and symbolic constructions of national, regional and gendered identities in the context of British tourists to Mallorca. Her current research involves the application of theories of existential anthropology to understandings of tourists' experiences and an examination of discourses of nationalism in tourism imagery. Hazel is a co-founder and an editor of the Journal of Tourism Consumption and Practice.