Tourism, Performance and the Everyday: Consuming the Orient

by Michael Haldrup and Jonas Larsen

Tourism has become increasingly 'exotic', a process made possible by low-cost charter tourism and cheaper air tickets. Faraway and evermore 'exotic' holidays are becoming widespread and within reach as destinations make their entry into the mass tourism market. Strolls through the bazaars of Istanbul and cruises on the Nile are packaged into the sea, sand and sun culture of traditional forms of organized mass tourism. At the same time new technologies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415467136
• ISBN13: 9780415467131
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"