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Tourism, Diasporas, and Space

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Diasporas result from the scattering of populations and cultures across geographical space and time. Transnational in nature and unbounded by space, they cut across the static, territorial boundaries more usually deployed to govern tourism. In a vibrant inter-disciplinary collection of essays from leading scholars in the field, this book introduces the main features and constructs of diasporas, and explores their implications for the consumption, production and practices of tourism. Three sets of mutually reinforcing relationships are explored:

  • experiences of diaspora tourists
  • the settings and spaces of diaspora tourism
  • the production of diaspora tourism.

Addressing the relationship between diasporic groups and tourism from both a consumer and producer perspective, examples are drawn from a wide spectrum of diasporic groups including the Chinese, Jewish, Southeast Asian, Croatian, Dutch and Welsh.

Until now, there has been no systematic and detailed treatment of the relationships between diasporas, their consumptions and the tourist experience. However, here, Coles and Timothy provide a unique navigation of the nature of these inter-connections which is ideal for students of tourism, sociology, cultural studies.

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ISBN: 9780415311243
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Author: Tim Coles, Dallen J Timothy
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 302 pages
Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism, and Mobility
Genres: Sports
Human geography

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