Cultures of Mass Tourism

Doing the Mediterranean in the Age of Banal Mobilities

Bibliographic Data

ID19979970
AuthorsPau Obrador (0000-0001-5619-7074), Pau Obrador Pons, Mike Crang (0000-0001-7678-8496), Penny Travlou (0000-0003-4585-079X)
Year2009
Pages192
Publication date2009-09-21
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byCultures of mass tourism: Doing the Mediterranean in the age of banal mobilities, Sevil Sönmez, 2010
VenueCultures of mass tourism (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherAshgate (PUBLISHER)
OpenAlexW1571974755
Open LibraryOL23213501M
ISBN9780754672135
LanguageEN
Citations received28

With more than 230 million international tourists a year, the Mediterranean region is the largest tourist destination in the world. This book outlines that its economic importance is matched by its significance as a cultural and aesthetic phenomenon. Through a series of ethnographic insights into some of the key sites of mass Mediterranean tourism, it focuses on package tourists' experiences of the serial, banal and depthless spaces that are mushrooming along the coast and the enchantments, dissolutions and dreams that saturate them. Moving away from the notion of authentic places corrupted by mass tourism, the book shows how new forms and spaces are made and remade by the mobilities and performances of locals, workers and tourists. Finally, the book looks at the complex materialities of mass tourism and the many networks that make it possible

Archaeology · Economic geography · Epistemology · Ethnography · Geography · Immigration · Mass migration · Media studies · Mediterranean climate · Mobilities · Phenomenon · Sociology · Tourism · Anthropology · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Philosophy · Cultural · Cultural Policy · Culture and tourism · Economic conditions · Economic history · Marketing · Mediterranean Region · Package tours · Political science · Popular Culture · Public policy · Social conditions · Social Science

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