Progress in French Tourism Geographies
Inhabiting Touristic Worlds
Editors: Stock, Mathis (Ed.)
- Provides a unique insight into Francophone tourism geography
- Identifies the specific concepts in French-speaking tourism geography
- Provides an original account of tourism as creating worlds inhabited by tourists
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- About this book
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This book provides an overview of the recent progress in Francophone tourism geography. It focuses on the theoretical advances in social and cultural geography, whereby the symbolic dimensions of tourism and the creation of tourism worlds are key. It puts forward the tourist conceived as mobile, situated, skilled, reflexive inhabitant of places, which gives all its meaning to the expression “inhabiting touristic worlds”. More specifically, this book addresses numerous rarely addressed issues such as the geo-history of tourism, the material cultures of tourists, the digitality and disconnection from digital technologies in National Parcs or the use of knowledge of tourists in metropolises. It gives insights in the specific Francophone approaches such as inhabiting, the urbanity of tourist resorts and the notion of territory in tourist studies. Finally, it provides an overview of the urban dimensions of tourism, place-making in the form of heritage, oasis tourism, sports tourism, production of space in Mexican resorts. As such, the book provides a key read for academics, students and professionals in tourism studies and tourism geography in search for alternative approaches.
- About the authors
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Mathis Stock is professor for tourism geography at University of Lausanne, Switzerland, where he leads the Research Group "Cultures and natures of tourism". His work is about tourist practices in a context of widespread mobilities, cities as tourist places as well as resort development. His main research question asks about the differentiated ways people inhabit mobilities and places.
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Progress in French Tourism Geographies
- Book Subtitle
- Inhabiting Touristic Worlds
- Editors
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- Mathis Stock
- Series Title
- Geographies of Tourism and Global Change
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-52136-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-52136-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-52135-6
- Series ISSN
- 2366-5610
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 222
- Number of Illustrations
- 7 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
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