Great Expectations: Imagination and Anticipation in Tourism

Published by Berghahn Books 2011

Great Expectations

Imagination and Anticipation in Tourism

Edited by: Jonathan Skinner and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos

Volume 34 in the series New Directions in Anthropology

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857452788

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About this book

The 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. It is for this reason, the authors argue, that special attention should be given to how expectations constitute and sustain tourism. The case studies presented here explore what fuels the desires to visit particular places, to what degree expectations inform the experience of the place, and the frequent disjunctions between tourist expectations and experiences. Careful attention is paid to how the imagination of the visitor inspires the imagination of the host, and vice-versa; how tourists and host communities actively imagine, re-imagine, and shape each other’s lives. This realization, has profound consequences, not solely for academic analysis, but for all those who participate in and work within the tourism industry.

Author / Editor information

Jonathan Skinner is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast. He is the author of Before the Volcano: Reverberations of Identity on Montserrat (Arawak Publications 2004) and co-editor of Managing Island Life (University of Abertay Press 2006).

Dimitrios Theodossopoulos is a Reader at the University of Kent. He is the author of Troubles with Turtles: Cultural Understandings of the Environment on a Greek Island (Berghahn 2003), and editor of When Greeks Think about Turks: The View from Anthropology (Routledge 2006) and United in Discontent: Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism and Globalization (Berghahn Books 2009).

Jonathan Skinner is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast. He is the author of Before the Volcano: Reverberations of Identity on Montserrat (Arawak Publications 2004) and co-editor of Managing Island Life (University of Abertay Press 2006).

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Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION: THE PLAY OF EXPECTATION IN TOURISM Jonathan Skinner and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2 SUCCESS AND ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE IN THE TOURISTLOCAL ENCOUNTER: CONFRONTATIONS WITH THE UNEXPECTED IN A TURKISH COMMUNITY Hazel Tucker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Chapter 3 EMBERÁ INDIGENOUS TOURISM AND THE WORLD OF EXPECTATIONS Dimitrios Theodossopoulos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
Chapter 4 THE PARADOX OF GAZE AND RESISTANCE IN NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURAL TOURISM: AN ALASKAN CASE STUDY Alexis Celeste Bunten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Chapter 5 FORWARD INTO THE PAST: ‘DIGGING’ THE BALEARIC ISLANDS Jacqueline Waldren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
Chapter 6 ON DIFFERENCE, DESIRE AND THE AESTHETICS OF THE UNEXPECTED: THE WHITE MASAI IN KENYAN TOURISM George Paul Meiu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
Chapter 7 DISPLEASURE ON ‘PLEASURE ISLAND’: TOURIST EXPECTATION AND DESIRE ON AND OFF THE CUBAN DANCE FLOOR Jonathan Skinner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
Chapter 8 THE COACH FELLAS: TOURISM PERFORMANCE AND EXPECTATION IN IRELAND Kelli Ann Malone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Chapter 9 GOING ON HOLIDAY TO IMAGINE WAR: THE WESTERN FRONT BATTLEFIELDS AS SITES OF COMMEMORATION AND CONTESTATION Jennifer Iles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Chapter 10 TOURING THE DEAD: IMAGINATION, EMBODIMENT AND AFFECT IN GUNTHER VON HAGENS’ BODY WORLDS EXHIBITIONS Jane C. Desmond Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
Chapter 11 AFTERWORD: THE TOUR AS IMAGINED, LIVED, EXPERIENCED AND TOLD Edward M. Bruner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 232
Keywords: Travel and Tourism; Anthropology (General)

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Published: October 1, 2011
ISBN: 9780857452788