The Media and the Tourist Imagination: Converging Cultures (Contemporary Geograp

Taylor & Francis

The Media and the Tourist ImaginationConverging Cultures\nAuthor(s): David Crouch, Rhona Jackson, Felix Thompson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415326254, 978-0415326254\nSynopsis\nTourism studies and media studies both address key issues about how we perceive the world. They raise acute questions about how we relate local knowledge and immediate experience to wider global processes, and they both play a major role in creating our map of national and international cultures.\n\nAdopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores the interactions between tourism and media practices within a contemporary culture in which the consumption of images has become increasingly significant. A number of common themes and concerns arise, and the contributions included are divided between those:\n\nwritten from media studies awareness perspective, concerned with the way the media imagines travel and tourism\nwritten fr.