Winner of the Western Writers of America 2014 Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction, Contemporary
Mention the Colorado high country today and vacation imagery springs immediately to mind: mountain scenery, camping, hiking, skiing, and world-renowned resorts like Aspen and Vail. But not so long ago, the high country was isolated and little visited. Vacationland tells the story of the region's dramatic transformation in the decades after World War II, when a loose coalition of tourist boosters fashioned alluring images of nature in the high country and a multitude of local, state, and federal actors built the infrastructure for high-volume tourism: ski mountains, stocked trout streams, motels, resort villages, and highway improvements that culminated in an entirely new corridor through the Rockies, Interstate 70.
Vacationland is more than just the tale of one tourist region. It is a case study of how the consumerism of the postwar years rearranged landscapes and revolutionized American environmental attitudes. Postwar tourists pioneered new ways of relating to nature, forging surprisingly strong personal connections to their landscapes of leisure and in many cases reinventing their lifestyles and identities to make vacationland their permanent home. They sparked not just a population boom in popular tourist destinations like Colorado but also a new kind of environmental politics, as they demanded protection for the aesthetic and recreational qualities of place that promoters had sold them. Those demands energized the American environmental movement-but also gave it blind spots that still plague it today.
Peopled with colorful characters, richly evocative of the Rocky Mountain landscape, Vacationland forces us to consider how profoundly tourism changed Colorado and America and to grapple with both the potential and the problems of our familiar ways of relating to environment, nature, and place.
Twenty years ago, commercial tourism in the People’s Republic of China hardly existed. Today, China has a burgeoning tourist industry, characterized by a unique style with deep roots in traditional Chinese culture. Scenic Spots is an engaging exploration of why Chinese tourists pursue certain kinds of experiences, what they make of them, and how their experiences and interpretations are shaped by the state.
Working from within a Chinese cultural framework, P?l Ny?ri argues that China’s brand of tourism is distinct from the traditions of both Western bourgeois tourism, which values authenticity, and Soviet tourism, with its emphasis on rugged and selfless experience. In China, tourism development is guided by the state, and “scenic spots” (jingdian) and theme parks are used to demonstrate China’s heroic past and as tools of patriotic education and modernization – or as forms of “indoctritainment.” The tourist site is perceived as a product, and, as such, it is bounded, approved, rated, and consumed.
In a style both straightforward and provocative, Ny?ri argues that the uniformity and undisguised commercialism of Chinese tourist sites are a direct result of the state’s ultimate authority to determine the meaning of landscape and to control culture. Scenic Spots serves as a lens through which to explore mechanisms of cultural control and resistance in a highly commercialized sphere of everyday life in contemporary China.
Автор: Wilson Samantha Название: Charting Scottish Tourism and the Early Scenic Film: Access, Identity and Landscape ISBN: 3030391523 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030391522 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 46570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: What impact did walking tours and scenic films have on leisure activities? In addition, scenic film provides the modern researcher with an unrivalled source of documentary evidence relating to the manner in which Scottish working and middle class communities explored and reclaimed the natural spaces around them.
Автор: Wilson Samantha Название: Charting Scottish Tourism and the Early Scenic Film: Access, Identity and Landscape ISBN: 3030391558 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030391553 Издательство: Springer Цена: 46570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: What impact did walking tours and scenic films have on leisure activities? In addition, scenic film provides the modern researcher with an unrivalled source of documentary evidence relating to the manner in which Scottish working and middle class communities explored and reclaimed the natural spaces around them.
Название: Chinese outbound tourism 2.0 ISBN: 1771881801 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781771881807 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 148010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Booming Mainland Chinese outbound travel is one of the most exciting phenomena in the world tourism industry's recent history. From 2000 to 2010, Chinese outbound travel increased at a compounded annual rate of 18.5 percent, and it is forecasted that by 2020 China will generate approximately 100 million outbound trips a year, making China the fourth largest source of outbound travel in the world. The new Chinese tourists are more confident, technologically savvy, value conscious, and ready to explore unfamiliar territory. For tourism marketers and researchers who are getting ready to or just celebrated their initial "west-meets-east" moments, the new Chinese tourists are showing up at their doors and presenting new challenges for marketing and service. In this book, leading authors from around the world share their most cutting-edge findings and thoughts on the Chinese outbound travel market. The book reflects on the paths of the Chinese outbound travel development, reports new trends and issues, and provides new insights and recommendations.
For practitioners around the world (e.g., destination policymakers and marketers, travel and tourism service providers, owners, and managers), this book provides hands-on guidance on understanding tourists from Mainland China. For tourism scholars, educators, and students, this book provides basic yet essential knowledge on the Chinese outbound travel market and tourist behavior and points out important future directions. Most tourism programs today have an international component in their curriculum, usually including a global tourism class. This book serves as an excellent supplemental reading for students in these classes.
Автор: Li, Xiang (Robert) Название: Chinese Outbound Tourism 2.0 ISBN: 1774635690 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781774635698 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 84710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: I. Malik Название: State and Civil Society in Pakistan ISBN: 0333646665 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333646663 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 144410.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Based on theoretical and empirical research, this work focuses on significant themes such as the oligarchic state structure dominated by the military and bureaucracy, civil society, and Islam and the formation of Muslim identity in British India.
Автор: Plebe, Alessio (University of Messina, Italy) Perconti, Pietro (Dept. of cognitive science, University of Messina, Italy) Название: Chinese Outbound Tourist Behaviour ISBN: 0367639181 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367639181 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 148010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Assuming an international perspective, Chinese Tourist Outbound Behaviour presents an insightful exploration of the evolution of China`s tourism market, explores Chinese tourists` behaviour, and considers how the country`s tourism landscape will expand in the future.
Автор: Luo, Jian Ming (city University Of Macau, China) Lam, Chi Fung (the Chinese University Of Hong Kong, The People`s Republic Of China) Название: Entertainment tourism ISBN: 036788917X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367889173 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 23470.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Over the last two decades, the entertainment and tourism services industry have undergone major transformations. The entertainment industry is a vast entity featuring numerous categories of entertainment and those beyond venue-based entertainment, from the internet to video games. Through the lens of Macau, this book provides an overview of ente
Автор: Chan Название: Building Temples in China ISBN: 1138295302 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138295308 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 51030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Much has been written on how temples are constructed or reconstructed for reviving local religious and communal life or for recycling tradition after the market reforms in China. The dynamics between the state and society that lie behind the revival of temples and religious practices initiated by the locals have been well-analysed. However, there is a gap in the literature when it comes to understanding religious revivals that were instead led by local governments.
This book examines the revival of worship of the Chinese Deity Huang Daxian and the building of many new temples to the god in mainland China over the last 20 years. It analyses the role of local governments in initiating temple construction projects in China, and how development-oriented temple-building activities in Mainland China reveal the forces of transnational ties, capital, markets and identities, as temples were built with the hope of developing tourism, boosting the local economy, and enhancing Chinese identities for Hong Kong worshippers and Taiwanese in response to the reunification of Hong Kong to China.
Including chapters on local religious memory awakening, pilgrimage as a form of tourism, women temple managers, entrepreneurialism and the religious economy, and based on extensive fieldwork, Chan and Lang have produced a truly interdisciplinary follow up to The Rise of a Refugee God which will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese religion, Chinese culture, Asian anthropology, cultural heritage and Daoism alike.
Автор: A. Afsaruddin Название: Islam, the State, and Political Authority ISBN: 1349297208 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349297207 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 74530.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The expert essays in this volume deal with critically important topics concerning Islam and politics in both the pre-modern and modern periods, suchas the nature of government, the relationship between politics and theology, Shi`i conceptions of statecraft, notions of public duty, and the compatibility of Islam and democratic governance."
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