Authenticity & Tourism: Materialities, Perceptions, Experiences: 24 (Tourism Social Science Series, 24) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1787548171 ISBN 13: 9781787548176

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018

Synopsis

Debates around the concept of authenticity date to the earliest theories of tourism, as scholars attempted to understand motivations for traveling away from 'home' and touristic experiences of places far 'away'. Over time, theories of authenticity have burgeoned from epistemological to ontological notions drawing a broad range of philosophers into tourism research.

This edited volume features chapters that engage with key debates about authenticity – its materiality, how it is perceived, and how it is experienced. The book is comprised of four sections thematically organized around popular trends in authenticity research in tourism, making this volume appropriate as both a comprehensive text and as individual investigations. Authenticity & Tourism: Materialities, Perceptions, Experiences includes chapters that engage with the pragmatic and the theoretical, including conversations on marketing and the production of tourism attractions, examinations of the constructive nature of authenticity, and the politics of authentication processes. Also included are contributions that revisit technological trends in tourism and advance debates of authenticity in souvenirs, photographs, and simulated experiences, as well as those more firmly anchored in the theoretical, pushing boundaries and establishing paths for future research.

Across these chapters, the authors employ a range of methodologies, from autoethnography to photo and food-elicitation combinations to discourse and content analyses. Set against a backdrop of truly global case studies, this collection exemplifies the multiple facets of authenticity research in tourism.

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The 14 chapters in this volume explore authenticity in tourism in terms of popular trends in authenticity research: marketing debates, including user-generated authenticity in social media marketing, destinations as tourism product mythologies, and the collaborative potential of experience marketing literature and authenticity research in the case of cacao farms in Brazil; cultural interpretation, in terms of the authentication practices of tourists in Italy, the Trinidad steelpan as a tourism resource, and authenticity in Portugal's interior rural areas; technological trends in tourism, including photography practices in Ireland, authenticity in gastronomic experiences, 3D souvenirs, and light shows; and theoretical inquiries relating to hunting and fishing as ecotourism, authenticity and wilderness, and authenticity as Western, capitalist, and privileged. Contributors work in tourism studies and other fields in Europe, Brazil, Iran, North America, and Australia. Author: Annotation İ2018 Source: (protoview.com)

Edition details

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1787548171
• ISBN 13: 9781787548176
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 338
• Editor: Rickly Jillian M., Vidon Elizabeth S.