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Tourist attractions constitute the metaphorical 'heart' of tourism. This book aims to both deconstruct and construct what tourist attractions are, how we perceive them and how we can enhance our understanding of what attracts us as tourists. The volume reaches beyond current ideas about the ways tourist attractions are created, shaped and packaged. It focuses on the importance and subjective nature of identity, memory, narrative and performance in the tourist experience to find new ways of analysing and managing tourist attractions. The book will appeal to researchers and students in tourism and destination management and heritage and indigenous tourism.
This book is a milestone for tourism research. It makes post-modern thought accessible for both mature students and managers and meticulously applies theory to practice through worked examples. Both Husserl’s phenomenology and Rojek’s constructivism come alive and challenge the practitioner to identify how destination and tourist co-create the attraction.
Johan R. Edelheim is Director of the Multidimensional Tourism Institute (MTI), Finland. His research interests within tourism and hospitality include education, linguistics and cultural issues. He is an executive member of the Tourism Education Futures Initiative (TEFI).
Prologue
Chapter 1 - Defining TAs
Chapter 2 - Managing TAs
Chapter 3 - Maintaining TAs
Chapter 4 - Reading TAs
Chapter 5 - Forming TAs
Chapter 6 - Forging TAs
Chapter 7 - Experiencing TAs
Chapter 8 - Performing TAs
Chapter 9 - Remembering TAs
Epilogue
References