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The Semiotics of Heritage Tourism [electronic resource].

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by Waterton, Emma.
Call Number 306.4
Publication Date 2014
Summary This book is a fast-paced and thorough re-evaluation of what heritage tourism means to the people who experience it. It draws on contemporary thinking in human geography and heritage studies, and applies it to a sector of tourism that is both pervasive yet poorly researched in terms of the perspective of tourists themselves. In a series of lucid and tightly argued chapters, it traces the use of semiotics as an analytical tool from its theoretical origins in text, through the all-important dynamics of visuality into an expanded realm of feeling and sensuality. Challenging assumptions about the
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The Cultural Moment in Tourism [electronic resource].

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by Smith, Laurajane.
Call Number 338.4791
Publication Date 2012
Summary This book is a response to the burgeoning interest in cultural tourism and the associated need for a coherently theorized approach for understanding the practices that such an interest creates. Cultural tourism has become an important and popular aspect of contemporary tourism studies, as well as providing a rich seam of upscale product development opportunities in the industry as a whole. Much of the related literature, however, focuses upon describing and categorizing cultural tourism from a supply-side perspective. This has prompted the taxonomizing of cultural tourists on the basis of t
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Culture, Heritage and Representation : Perspectives on Visuality and the Past.

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by Watson, Steve.
Call Number 338.4791
Publication Date 2010
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