Suchergebnisse

1. Images, imaginaries and imagination's : French notes / Saskia Cousin -- 2. Imagining Goa : tourism development and state formation in postcolonial Goa / Raghuraman S. Trichur -- 3. Reinventing and reshaping Gaudi : from nation and religion to tourism : architecture, conflict and change in Barcelona's tourist imaginary / Josep-Maria Garcia-Fuentes -- 4. "What happens in Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas" : when tourism imaginaries fashion the scientific discourse / Pascale Nedelec -- 5. Evangeline, acadians, and tourism imaginaries / Rita Ross -- 6. Tourism imaginaries and political discourses of Mayotte Island / Madina Regnault -- 7. Fair tourism and the "authentic" encounter : realization of a rite of recognition in the context of the myth of authenticity / Alain Girard and Bernard Scheou -- 8. Crafting archaism, cultural entrepreneurs, indigenous masks and the political and touristic imaginaries of heritage in Central America / Julien Laverdure -- 9. Holidaying in Japan, falling in love with Japan : from pop culture to tourism imaginary / Clothilde Sabre -- 10. "Like nowhere else" : imagining Provincetown for the lesbian and gay family / Liz Montegary -- 11. The marvel of tropical waters : the invention of an imaginary at the pace of technological advances / Luc Vacher -- 12. From the invention of an imaginary to the promotion of tourism : Greece through the lens of the photographer F. Boissonnas (1903-1930) / Estelle Sohier -- 13. Beyond imaginary of place : performing, imagining, and deceiving self through online tourist photography / Iris Sheungting Lo and Bob McKercher -- 14. The tourism websites of metropolitan areas : between the image and the imaginary / Philippe Viallon -- 15. Transportation catastrophes and travel imaginaries in the French mass illustrated press, 1890-1914 / H. Hazel Hahn -- Conclusion : at the crossroads / Nelson Graburn.

Like other industrial nations, Japan is experiencing its own forms of, and problems with, internationalization and multiculturalism. This volume focuses on several aspects of this process and examines the immigrant minorities as well as their Japanese recipient communities. Multiculturalism is considered broadly, and includes topics often neglected in other works, such as: religious pluralism, domestic and international tourism, political regionalism and decentralization, sports, business styles in the post-Bubble era, and the education of immigrant minorities

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- 1 Tourism fictions, simulacra and virtualities: write, stage and play the tourist game -- Part 1 Fictions -- 2 White lies: reclaiming Rio de Janeiro's denied slave past in the touristic redevelopment of the old port -- 3 Palacy-in-progress: re-imagining East Prussian country estates in post-socialist tourism landscapes of Northeast Poland -- 4 Tourist bubbles in the Alps: sliding from the sublime into picturesque worlds -- 5 Iconic architecture or theme park? Seville's cinematographic reinvention for tourism purposes (1914-1930) -- Part 2 Simulacra -- 6 (Re)Presenting paradise: the Hawaiian imaginary in Las Vegas -- 7 Tourism, simulacra and architectural reconstruction: selling an idealised past -- 8 From the Lascaux cave to Lascaux IV: repetition and transformation of a simulacrum -- 9 An oriental town patterned upon movies concepts: China City, a tourist simulacrum in Los Angeles (1938-1948) -- Part 3 Virtualities -- 10 The city of light in the city of signs: virtuality and tourism at Paris, Las Vegas -- 11 To be a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. On architecture, computer games and tourist experience in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone -- 12 Virtualities in the new tourism landscape: the case of the Anne Frank House virtual tour and of the visualizations of the Berlin Wall in the Cold War context -- 13 Iconic architecture in tourism: (how) does it work? -- Index.