Tourism and Visual Culture

Tourism and Visual Culture
Author: Peter M. Burns
Publisher: CABI
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1845936108

The study of tourism as a complex social phenomenon, beyond simply business, is increasing in importance. Providing an examination of perceptions of culture and society in tourism destinations through the tourist's eyes, this book discusses how destinations were, and are, created and perceived through the 'lens' of the tourist's gaze.

Visual Culture and Tourism

Visual Culture and Tourism
Author: David Crouch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2003-05
Genre: Art
ISBN:

From postcards & paintings to photography & film, tourism & visual culture have a longstanding history of mutual entanglement. This book explores the complex association between tourism & visual culture throughout history & across cultures.

Tourism and Visual Culture Methods and cases

Tourism and Visual Culture Methods and cases
Author: Peter M. Burns
Publisher: CABI
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1845936124

The study of tourism as a complex social phenomenon, beyond simply business, is increasing in importance. Providing an examination of perceptions of culture and society in tourism destinations through the tourist's eyes, this book discusses how destinations were, and are, created and perceived through the 'lens' of the tourist's gaze.

Performing Cultural Tourism

Performing Cultural Tourism
Author: Susan Carson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2017-07-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351703900

This book brings together new ideas about how communities, creative producers, and visitors can productively engage with competing notions of experience and authenticity in the tourist environment. It investigates how community interests intersect the desire for more intimate engagements with cultural experiences. Focusing on the way in which communities and visitors ‘perform’ new forms of cultural tourism, Performing Cultural Tourism is aimed at undergraduate students, researchers, academics, and a diverse range of professionals at both private and government levels that are seeking to develop policies and business plans that recognize and respond to new interests in contemporary tourism.

Destination Culture

Destination Culture
Author: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1998-09-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520209664

With the question, "What does it mean to show?", the author explores the agency of display in museums and tourist attractions. She looks at how objects are made to perform their meaning by being collected and how techniques of display, not just the things shown, convey a powerful message.

An Eye for the Tropics

An Eye for the Tropics
Author: Krista A. Thompson
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2007-03-15
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0822388561

Images of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical paradises full of palm trees, white sandy beaches, and inviting warm water seem timeless. Surprisingly, the origins of those images can be traced back to the roots of the islands’ tourism industry in the 1880s. As Krista A. Thompson explains, in the late nineteenth century, tourism promoters, backed by British colonial administrators, began to market Jamaica and the Bahamas as picturesque “tropical” paradises. They hired photographers and artists to create carefully crafted representations, which then circulated internationally via postcards and illustrated guides and lectures. Illustrated with more than one hundred images, including many in color, An Eye for the Tropics is a nuanced evaluation of the aesthetics of the “tropicalizing images” and their effects on Jamaica and the Bahamas. Thompson describes how representations created to project an image to the outside world altered everyday life on the islands. Hoteliers imported tropical plants to make the islands look more like the images. Many prominent tourist-oriented spaces, including hotels and famous beaches, became off-limits to the islands’ black populations, who were encouraged to act like the disciplined, loyal colonial subjects depicted in the pictures. Analyzing the work of specific photographers and artists who created tropical representations of Jamaica and the Bahamas between the 1880s and the 1930s, Thompson shows how their images differ from the English picturesque landscape tradition. Turning to the present, she examines how tropicalizing images are deconstructed in works by contemporary artists—including Christopher Cozier, David Bailey, and Irénée Shaw—at the same time that they remain a staple of postcolonial governments’ vigorous efforts to attract tourists.

Travel Writing, Visual Culture, and Form, 1760-1900

Travel Writing, Visual Culture, and Form, 1760-1900
Author: Brian H. Murray
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2016-03-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137543396

This collection reveals the variety of literary forms and visual media through which travel records were conveyed in the long nineteenth century, bringing together a group of leading researchers from a range of disciplines to explore the relationship between travel writing, visual representation and formal innovation.

Uplift

Uplift
Author: PearlAnn Reichwein
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2020-11-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0774864540

The Banff School opened its doors in 1933 by offering a summer drama course. Since then, it has grown into a renowned cultural destination, today known as the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. As PearlAnn Reichwein and Karen Wall recount in this engaging history, over its first four decades the school produced and circulated ideals of culture and liberal democratic citizenship that were intrinsic to the development of modern Canada. Uplift traces the role of the school in shaping arts and cultural education, as reflected in its array of artistic, political, economic, and ideological interests. Situated within Banff National Park, the school and its surroundings combined stunning natural scenery and cultural capital in a symbolic national landscape. In an era of unstable cultural policy and funding, Uplift draws welcome attention to the place of fine arts, culture, and the humanities in public education and in Canada’s history.

Tourists, Signs and the City

Tourists, Signs and the City
Author: Dr Michelle M Metro-Roland
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2012-11-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1409490254

Drawing upon the literature of landscape geography, tourism studies, cultural studies, visual studies and philosophy, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the interaction between urban environments and tourists. This is a necessary prerequisite for cities as they make themselves into enticing destinations and compete for tourists' attention. It argues that tourists make sense of, and draw meaningful conclusions about, the places in which they tour based upon the interpretation of the signs or elements encountered within the built environment, elements such as graffiti and lamp posts. The writings of the American pragmatist Charles S. Peirce on interpretation provide the theoretical model for explaining the way in which mind and world, or thoughts and objects, result in tourists interacting with place. This theoretical framework elucidates three applied studies undertaken with foreign visitors to the Hungarian capital of Budapest. Based upon extensive ethnographic field work, these studies focus on tourists' interpretation of the urban landscape, with particular attention paid to the encounters with national culture, the role of architecture and the importance of the prosaic in urban tourism.

Barcelona

Barcelona
Author: Helena Buffery
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2012-06-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0708324827

Barcelona - Visual Culture, Space and Power offers a unique approach to the history of the avantgarde in Barcelona, as well as its legacy in the post-war period. It presents the relationship between environment, identity and performance as explored by countercultural artists and communities from the 1960s to the present day.