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Many places around the world are being produced, converted, interpreted and made fit for tourist consumption. This fascinating book analyzes tourist performances such as walking, shopping, sunbathing, photographing, eating and clubbing, and studies why, and indeed how, some places become global centres whilst others don't. Arranged in four distinct parts, Sheller and Urry consider: Performing Paradise Performances of Global Heritage Remaking Playful Places New Playful Places. Incorporating a wide array of empirical research and innovative international case studies, this fascinating book illuminates the tourist performance phenomenon: from Eco-tourism on the beach to shopping in Hong Kong, from the making of 'Cool Reykjavik' to tourism in high-rise suburbs in Paris, and from Inca heritage to medical tourism. Edited by two world authorities in tourism studies, this revealing book deploys a range of theories related to the 'mobility turn' in the social sciences in order to analyze the contingent and networked nature of how places are stabilized as fit for playful performances. Well-written and researched, with coherent analysis and presentation, this book will appeal to academics, students and those interested in the complex character of global change.

Products and commodities take on the qualities of the places from which they come. In their tendency to persist even in the context of geographically homogenizing forces, place differences permeate the artifacts whose creation they stimulate. Through an investigation of industrial design practice, I specify how factors like client referral systems, local art worlds, and the existence of prior physical infrastructure influence the substance of stuff. I also examine processes like migrants' cultural self–selection, the formation of internal markets, and the nature of the local semiotic. The mechanisms through which such diverse elements combine into a local industrial atmosphere shape not just competitive advantage of one place over another in producing a given artifact, but the nature of goods that can come into existence.Les produits et marchandises revêtent les propriétés de leurs lieux d'origine. Tendant à subsister en dépit des forces d'homogénéisation géographique, les différences entre les lieux imprègnent les objets dont elles stimulent la création. A partir d'une étude sur les pratiques en conception industrielle, l'article établit la façon dont les systèmes de référence des clients, les univers artistiques locaux et l'existence d'une infrastructure matérielle antérieure influent sur l'essence même des choses. Certains processus sont détaillés comme l'auto–sélection culturelle des migrants, la formation de marchés internes et la nature de la sémiotique locale. Les mécanismes qui permettent la combinaison de ces divers éléments en une 'ambiance' industrielle locale façonnent non seulement des atouts pour la concurrence entre tel et tel lieux grâce à la production d'un objet spécifique, mais aussi la nature des produits qui peuvent voir le jour.