Tourism Society and Culture

This cultural critique of HIV/AIDS prevention programmes targetting sex tourism industries in Southeast Asia posits a new place for a speaking sex worker subject. Provides vital up-to-date research for scholars in many disciplines...

This book is the first to focus on why and how foreign Western women engage in cross-border sexual and intimate relations as tourists travelling, or temporarily dwelling, in a Central American country. The book combines descriptions of women’s travels and sexual relations across racial and class bou..

This is the first edited work dealing solely and specifically with the global phenomenon slum tourism from interdisciplinary perspectives. Building on research by prolific researchers the book contributes a comprehensive and unique overview of current empirical, practical and theoretical knowledge o..

This is the first edited work dealing solely and specifically with the global phenomenon slum tourism from interdisciplinary perspectives. Building on research by prolific researchers the book contributes a comprehensive and unique overview of current empirical, practical and theoretical knowledge o..

This book presents a range of theoretical and geographical perspectives on social tourism: the use of tourism as a social inclusion and/or economic regeneration strategy. On the basis of examples from countries such as Ireland, the UK, Hungary, Spain and Brazil, it explores the potential and limitat..

This innovative volume moves beyond existing operational approaches to events studies by exploring sports events as social, cultural, political, and mediatised phenomena. The core themes of consumption, media technologies, representation, identities and culture are discussed to offer new insight int..

This innovative volume moves beyond existing operational approaches to events studies by exploring sports events as social, cultural, political, and mediatised phenomena. The core themes of consumption, media technologies, representation, identities and culture are discussed to offer new insight int..

In recent years, informal urban settlements have increasingly been visited as sites of touristic exploration in many large cities of the Global South. By applying different methodologies the book offers a multi-layered analysis of the cultural encounters that take place between slum tourists and for..

The Arts and Events..

The Arts and Events..

This book is a response to the burgeoning interest in cultural tourism and the associated need for a coherently theorized approach for understanding the practices and processes that such an interest creates. This groundbreaking volume provides a theoretical and empirical account of what it means to ..

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview and holistic analysis of the intersection between tourism and popular culture. The scope of this multidisciplinary volume encompasses various expressions of popular culture such as cinema, TV shows, music, literature, sports and heritage...