Elspeth Frew - Tourism and National Identities: An International Perspective

By understanding tourist destinations through the lens of national identity, the tourist may develop a deeper appreciation of the destination. Further, tourism marketers and planners may be better equipped to promote and manage the destination, particularly with regard to expectations of the potential visitor.

Tourism and National Identities is the first volume to explore fully the relationship between tourism and national identities and the multiple ways in which cultural tourism, events and celebrations contribute to national identity. It examines core topics critical to understanding this relationship, including: tourism branding, stereotyping and national identity; tourism-related representation and experience of national identity; tourism visitation/site/event management; and the relationship to cultural tourism.

The book looks at a range of international tourist sites and events and combines multidisciplinary perspectives and international cases to provide a thorough academic analysis. The interconnecting area of cultural tourism and national identity has been largely overlooked in academic literature to date; this volume gives considerable analysis to the complex relationship between the two domains and, indeed, the multifaceted strategies used to define that relationship.

Written by an international team of leading academics, Tourism and National Identities will be of interest to students, researchers and academics in tourism and related disciplines such as events, cultural studies and geography.

Elspeth Frew is a Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

Leanne White is a Lecturer in the School of Hospitality, Tourism and Marketing, and a research associate in the Centre for Tourism and Services Research at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia.

Edited by C. Michael Hall

Professor at the Department of Management, College of Business and Economics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

The aim of this series is to explore and communicate the intersections and relationships between leisure, tourism and human mobility within the social sciences.

It will incorporate both traditional and new perspectives on leisure and tourism from contemporary geography for example, notions of identity, representation and culture while also providing for perspectives from cognate areas, such as anthropology, cultural studies, gastronomy and food studies, marketing, policy studies and political economy, regional and urban planning, and sociology, within the development of an integrated field of leisure and tourism studies.

Also, increasingly, tourism and leisure are regarded as steps in a continuum of human mobility. Inclusion of mobility in the series offers the prospect of examining the relationship between tourism and migration, the sojourner, educational travel, and second home and retirement travel phenomena.

The series comprises two strands:

Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism and mobility aims to address the needs of students and academics, and the titles will be published in hardback and paperback. Titles already published:

The Moralisation of Tourism

Sun, sand... and saving the world?

Jim Butcher

The Ethics of Tourism Development

Mick Smith and Rosaleen Duffy

Tourism in the Caribbean

Trends, development, prospects

Edited by David Timothy Duval

Qualitative Research in Tourism

Ontologies, epistemologies and methodologies

Edited by Jenny Phillimore and Lisa Goodson

The Media and the Tourist Imagination

Converging cultures

Edited by David Crouch, Rhona

Jackson and Felix Thompson

Tourism and Global Environmental Change

Ecological, social, economic and political interrelationships

Edited by Stefan Gssling and C. Michael Hall

Cultural Heritage of Tourism in the Developing World

Edited by Dallen J. Timothy and Gyan Nyaupane

Understanding and Managing Tourism Impacts

C. Michael Hall and Alan Lew

Forthcoming:

An Introduction to Visual Research Methods in Tourism

Edited by Tijana Rakic and Donna Chambers

Routledge studies in contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism and mobility is a forum for innovative new research intended for research students and academics, and the titles will be available in hardback only. Titles already published:

1 Living with Tourism

Negotiating identities in a Turkish village

Hazel Tucker

2 Tourism, Diasporas and Space

Edited by Tim Coles and Dallen

J. Timothy

3 Tourism and Postcolonialism

Contested discourses, identities and representations

Edited by C. Michael Hall and Hazel Tucker

4 Tourism, Religion and Spiritual Journeys

Edited by Dallen J. Timothy and Daniel H. Olsen

5 Chinas Outbound Tourism

Wolfgang Georg Arlt

6 Tourism, Power and Space

Edited by Andrew Church and Tim Coles

7 Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City

Edited by Jan Rath

8 Ecotourism, NGOs and Development

A critical analysis

Jim Butcher

9 Tourism and the Consumption of Wildlife

Hunting, shooting and sport fishing

Edited by Brent Lovelock

10 Tourism, Creativity and Development

Edited by Greg Richards and Julie Wilson

11 Tourism at the Grassroots

Edited by John Connell and Barbara Rugendyke

12 Tourism and Innovation

C. Michael Hall and Allan Williams

13 World Tourism Cities

Developing tourism off the beaten track

Edited by Robert Maitland and Peter Newman

14 Tourism and National Parks

International perspectives on development, histories and change

Edited by Warwick Frost and C. Michael Hall

15 Tourism, Performance and the Everyday

Consuming the Orient

Michael Haldrup and Jonas Larsen

16 Tourism and Change in Polar Regions

Edited by C. Michael Hall and Jarkko Saarinen

17 Fieldwork in Tourism

Methods, issues and reflections

Edited by C. Michael Hall

18 Tourism and India

Kevin Hannam and Anya Diekmann

19 Political Economy of Tourism

Edited by Jan Mosedale

20 Volunteer Tourism

Edited by Angela Benson

21 The Study of Tourism

Richard Sharpley

22 Childrens and Families Holiday Experience

Neil Carr

23 Tourism and Agriculture

Edited by Rebecca Torres and Janet Momsen

24 Tourism and National Identities

An international perspective

Edited by Elspeth Frew and Leanne White

Forthcoming:

Gender and Tourism

Cara Atchinson

Tourism in China

David Airey and King Chong

Real Tourism

Edited by Claudio Minca and Tim Oaks

Tourism and Animal Ethics

David A. Fennell

An international perspective

Edited by Elspeth Frew and Leanne White