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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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Heritage and Tourism [electronic resource] : Place, Encounter, Engagement

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by Staiff, Russell.
Call Number 338.4791
Publication Date 2013
Summary The complex relationship between heritage places and people, in the broadest sense, can be considered dialogic, a communicative act that has implications for both sides of the 'conversation'. This is the starting point for Heritage and Tourism . However, the 'dialogue' between visitors and heritage sites is complex. 'Visitors' have, for many decades, become synonymous with 'tourists' and the tourism industry and so the dialogic relationship between heritage place and tourists has produced a powerful critique of this often contested relationship. Further, at the heart of the dialogic relationsh
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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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