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Book SynopsisThe negotiation of expectations in tourism is a complex and dynamic process - one that is central to the imagination of cultural difference. Expectations not only affect the lives and experiences of tourists, but also their hosts, and play an important part in the success or failure of the overall tourism experience.
Trade Review"[This volume offers] a fascinating series of studies of how expectation and anticipation shape tourist practices. Readers will find here rich and impressive studies that range across the globe pausing to cast new light on many classic scenarios and issues - This volume will be a major resource that offers a nuanced account of the complexities of expectations, disappointments and joys of tourism." * Mike Crang, Durham University " - an exciting volume, one that addresses a little understood aspect of tourism: the complex interaction between imagination and reality, and the way in which anticipation and expectation frames the experience of tourism - These issues are often discussed in passing in other works, but here they are brought into sharp relief." * Adam Kaul, Augustana College
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction:The Play of Expectation in Tourism Jonathan Skinner & Dimitrios Theodossopoulos Chapter 2. Success and Access to Knowledge in the Tourist-local Encounter: Confrontations with the Unexpected in a Turkish Community Hazel Tucker Chapter 3. Embera Indigenous Tourism and the World of Expectations Dimitrios Theodossopoulos Chapter 4. The Paradox of Gaze and Resistance in Native American Cultural Tourism: An Alaskan Case Study Alexis Celeste Bunten Chapter 5. Forward into the past: 'Digging' the Balearic Islands Jacqueline Waldren Chapter 6. On Difference, Desire, and the Aesthetics of the Unexpected: The White Masai in Kenyan Tourism George Paul Meiu Chapter 7. Displeasure on 'Pleasure Island': tourist expectation and desire on and off the Cuban dance floor Jonathan Skinner Chapter 8. The Coach Fellas: Tourism performance and expectation in Ireland Kelli Ann Malone Chapter 9. Going on Holiday to Imagine War: The Western Front Battlefields as Sites of Commemoration and Contestation Jennifer Iles Chapter 10. Touring the Dead: Imagination, Embodiment and Affect in Gunter Von Hagen's Body Worlds Exhibitions Jane Desmond Chapter 11. Afterword: The Tour as Imagined, Lived, Experienced, and Told Ed Bruner Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index
