Touring Consumption

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-8

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2. Touring Consumption: Itineraries on the Move

   • Stephan Sonnenburg, Desmond Wee

   Pages 9-20

3. Revitalizing Forgotten Place Brands through Touring Consumption: The Case of The Old London Underground Company

   • Melodena Stephens Balakrishnan

   Pages 21-55

4. Pilgrimage Tourism in Consumer Society: Foot Pilgrimages to the Jasna Góra Sanctuary in Częstochowa

   • Felicjan Bylok, Leszek Cichobłazińnski

   Pages 57-76

5. Facets of Mobility

   • Ulrich Gehmann

   Pages 77-95

6. Spectral Touring: Subject, Consumption, and the ‘Wound’ of the Photograph

   • Sourav Kargupta

   Pages 97-116

7. Fashion and the Mobile Body: The Value of Clothing and Fashion for Merleau-Ponty’s Concept of Chiasm

   • Ian W. King

   Pages 117-131

8. De-+-Touring through Embodied ‘Inter-Place’

   • Wendelin Küpers

   Pages 133-160

9. Developing Branding Strategies based on Automatic Behavioural System for Mega Event Tourism, The Olympics

   • Erica Liu

   Pages 161-183

10. Protecting the European Medical Tourist: A New Challenge for the E.U. Law?

    • Fernando Peña López

    Pages 185-200

11. How Tall Can the Acacia Grow? Cityscapes between Conviviality and Mass Invasion

    • Florin Mureşanu, Monica Mureşanu

    Pages 201-228

12. The ACACIA Paradox: Built Heritage Conservation versus Increasing Tourism

    • Florin Mureşanu, Monica Mureşanu

    Pages 229-259

13. The Legally Pluralistic Tourist

    • Roy Andrew Partain

    Pages 261-284

14. The Hidden Dimensions of Cultural Consumption within the Framework of Tourism Mobility

    • Tamara Rátz, Viktória Kundi, Gábor Michalkó

    Pages 285-302

15. Towards a New Role Model of the Contemporary Architectural Tourist

    • Jan Specht

    Pages 303-318

16. Back Matter

    Pages 319-323

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This book attempts to confront spatial, performative and cultural interrelations between tourism and social economic behavior by providing a critical platform for the articulation of touring consumption in our contemporary world. Tourism has become a significant area of scholarship especially given the industry’s product development opportunities on a global scale. However, the emphasis placed on such research has largely been from a supply-side perspective. What needs to be explored is the shift towards the agencies of the tourist or traveler as consumer and consumption as being embodied as a moment of practice in continuous states of touring.

• Cultural Studies
• Geography
• Management
• Mobilities
• Sociology
• Tourism

• Karlshochschule International University in Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

  Stephan Sonnenburg, Desmond Wee

Stephan Sonnenburg is Professor for Creativity and Performative Management at the Karlshochschule International University in Karlsruhe, Germany. He is Dean of the Faculty ‘Management & Performance’. Desmond Wee is Professor for Tourism Sciences and Spatial Theories at the Karlshochschule International University in Karlsruhe, Germany. He is Head of the Bachelor Programme International Tourism Management.

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