Tourism and Everyday Life in the Contemporary City (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City)

By: Christoph Sommer and Thomas Frisch and Luise Stoltenberg and Natalie Stors

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Synopsis: This book explores the phenomena of the urban everyday and new urban tourism. It provides a systematic framework and draws on a mix of theoretical and empirical work to look at the increasing intermingling of ‘tourists’ and ‘residents’. Tourism and urban everyday life are deeply connected in a mutually constitutive way. Tourism has become a key momentum of urban development and affects cities beyond its economic dimension. Urban everyday life itself can turn into a matter of tourist interest for people searching for experiences off the beaten track. Even living in a city as a resident involves moments, activities and practices which could be labelled as ‘touristic’. These observations demonstrate some of the various layers in which urban tourism and everyday city life are intertwined. This book gathers multiple interdisciplinary approaches, a diversity of topics and methodological variety to examine this complex relationship. It presents a systematic framework for the dynamic research field of new urban tourism along three dimensions: the extraordinary mundane, encounters and contact zones, and urban co-production. This book will be of interest to students and researchers across fields such as Tourism and Mobility Studies, Urban Studies, Leisure Studies, Tourism Geography, and Tourism Sociology.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9780429016493
Related ISBNs:: 9780429507168, 9781138580725, 9781138580725
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 03/20/20
Copyrighted By:: Thomas Frisch, Christoph Sommer, Luise Stoltenberg, Natalie Stors
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Travel, Business and Finance, Social Studies
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Thomas Frisch
Edited by:: Christoph Sommer
Edited by:: Luise Stoltenberg
Edited by:: Natalie Stors