Irish Tourism

Image, Culture and Identity
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-1-873150-54-2
Verlag: Multilingual Matters Limited

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

For many years Ireland has been a popular tourist destination and tourism has been one of the most significant social, economic and cultural forces in Irish society. Irish Tourism: Image, Culture and Identity engages with major national and international debates on contemporary tourism through cutting-edge research. The book explores the multi-faceted nature of this important phenomenon, drawing on current work in sociology, cultural studies, ethnography, and language studies. For those who theorise about tourism and those who make practical day-to-day decisions on tourism policy, Irish Tourism will provide invaluable insights into historical and contemporary tourist representations, practices and impacts. In addressing issues such as the relationship between the local and the global in tourist settings, the construction of tourist imagery and products, and the development of tourism policy, contributors to Irish Tourism offer an innovative and critical analysis of the impact of global tourism on a small country. This book will be indispensable reading for students and scholars in Tourism Studies and Irish Studies and will also be essential for students of sociology, cultural studies, geography, languages and anthropology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cronin, Michael

O'Connor, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen Tourismuswirtschaft, Gastgewerbe
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors

Introduction

Part 1: Changing Places: The Local and the Global in Tourist Communities

1. Moya Kneafsey: ‘If It Wasn’t for the Tourists We Wouldn’t Have an Audience’: The Case of Tourism and Traditional Music in North Mayo

2. Ruth Casey: Defining the Local: The Development of an ‘Environment Culture’ in a Clare Village

3. Bernadette Quinn: Shaping Tourism Places: Agency and Interconnection in Festival Settings

Part 2: Performing Heritage: The Globalisation of Tourist Products and Practices

4. Mark McGovern: ‘The Cracked Pint Glass of the Servant’: The Irish Pub, Irish Identity and the Tourist Eye

5. Eamonn Slater: Constructing an Exotic ‘Stroll’ through Irish Heritage: The Aran Islands Heritage Centre

6. Barbara O’Connor: ‘Come and Daunce with Me in Irlande’: Tourism, Dance and Globalisation

Part 3: The Power of the Gaze: Negotiating Tourist and Native Identities

7. Annette Jorgensen: Power, Knowledge and Tourguiding: The Construction of Irish Identity on Board County Wicklow Tour Buses

8. Máirín Nic Eoin: The Native Gaze: Literary Perceptions of Tourists in the West Kerry Gaeltacht

Part 4: Imagining Ireland: The Construction of Tourist Representations

9. Michael Cronin: Next to Being There: Ireland of the Welcomes and Tourism of the Word

10. Stephanie Rains: Home from Home: Diasporic Images of Ireland in Film and Tourism

11. Justin Carville: Photography, Tourism and Natural History: Cultural Identity and the Visualisation of the Natural World

Part 5: Tourism Policy: Historical and Contemporary Issues

12. Juliette Péchenart: Tongue-tied: Language, Culture and Changing Trends in Irish Tourism Employment

13. Spurgeon Thompson: ‘Not Only Beef, But Beauty. ’: Tourism, Dependency, and the Post-colonial Irish State, 1925–30

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Cronin is Associate Professor in the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies and Dean of the Joint Faculty of Humanities, Dublin City University. He is author of Across the Lines: Travel, Language and Translation (Cork University Press, 2000) and Translating Ireland: Translation, Languages, Identities (Cork University Press, 1996). He is co-editor of Reinventing Ireland: Culture, Society and the Global Economy (Pluto Press, 2002) and Tourism in Ireland: A Critical Analysis (Cork University Press, 1993). He is a member of the Editorial Board of Tourism and Cultural Change and a member of the International Editorial Board of Language and Intercultural Communication.

Barbara O’Connor is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Communications, Dublin City University. She has published widely on Irish tourism and other aspects of Irish popular culture including media audiences/consumption and popular dance. She is co-editor of Gender in Irish Society (Galway University Press, 1987), Tourism in Ireland: A Critical Analysis (Cork University Press, 1993) and Media Audiences in Ireland: Power and Cultural Identity (University College Dublin Press, 1997).