Prospects in tourism history: evolution, state of play and future developments.

https://isiarticles.com/bundles/Article/pre/pdf/149.pdf

Contemporary tourism heritage as heritage tourism: evidence from Las Vegas and Gold Coast.

Place marketing of cities tends to be seen as a pragmatic, rather than a political, activity aimed at bringing prosperity to localities. It is argued here that the reverse is the case: place marketing is an essentially political activity that demonstrates different political, or more accurately, class settlements by its impact on cities. The political shift to neo-liberalism ended the post-war social democratic settlement and ushered in a new era for place marketing. Place marketing was an integral part of that settlement. It was particularly associated with gentrification that, it is argued, is a political strategy by which neo-liberalism takes control of the city. Place marketing, however, reached its limits by the end of the long boom in 2008. But now that crisis has discredited neo-liberalism, it is unlikely that the place marketing that characterized the past years will remain. If place marketing symbolises different political settlements, then the politics that emerges out of this crisis will generate another type of place marketing.

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2Fpb.2010.12.pdf

Neo-liberalism and the future of place marketing

“Place for me is the locus of desire,” writes Lucy Lippard in the opening to Lure of the Local (1997). This research project is about place. Two distinct sets of scholarship on place emerged in the 1970s and the 1990s. A third wave of place scholarship is evident today. Coming initially from geography and anthropology, the study of place is now ubiquitous across fields—in history, cultural studies, architecture, planning, health sciences, art and other disciplines. Despite the sustained interest in the study of place, one of the hallmarks of place is the ranging and contested contours of what place means. Place is defined, for the purposes of this study, as a describable location characterized by a shifting confluence of historical, material, political, cultural, economic, built, sensed and imagined qualities. There are three distinct goals in this research project. First, this research project seeks to explore how place has been theorized, imagined, and understood. Second, this research project is an inquiry into how place can be studied. To these ends, I name, define, and refine a method I call place ethnography. Place ethnography is a methodological framework that blends ethnographic and historic research with a range of disciplinary techniques in order to study place. I develop several concepts in this project. These include the idea of a place imaginary, defined as a dominant place perception, the

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Place, Imaginary, Identity: Place Ethnography in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico

(2006). From Dungeons to Dance Parties: Contested Histories of Ghana's Slave Forts. Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 249-260.

From Dungeons to Dance Parties: Contested Histories of Ghana's Slave Forts

Foreword, Davydd J. Greenwood, Cornell UniversityDefining a Canon and a Mode of PerceptionReproduction, Fragmentation, and Collection: The Logics of Roman Souvenirs from Print to Plastic, Sarah Benson, History of Art and Archaeology, Cornell University Early Travelers in Greece and the Invention of Medieval Architectural History, Kostis Kourelis, Art History, Swarthmore College Performing Abroad: British Tourists to Italy and the Production of Identity, 1840-1914, Jill Steward, School of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Northumbria Politics of Pilgrimage From Tripoli to Ghadames: Architecture and the Tourist Experience of Local Culture in Italian Colonial Libya, Brian L. McLaren, Architecture, University of Washington A Pilgrimage to the Alczar of Toledo: Ritual, Tourism and Propaganda in Francos Spain, 1936-1940, Miriam Basilio, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City Authenticating Dungeons, Whitewashing Castles: Memory, Performance and Restoration at the Former Sites of Slave Trade in Ghana Cheryl Finley, Art, Wellesley College Packaging Place From Photographic Fragments to Architectural Illusions at the 1929 Poble Espanyol in Barcelona, Jordana Mendelson, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Similating France, Seducing the World: The Regional Center at the 1937 Paris Exposition, Deborah D. Hurtt, Architectural History, University of Virginia Tourist Geographies: Re-mapping Old Habana, D. Medina Lasansky, History of Architecture and Urbanism, Cornell University Performance and Popular CultureSweetening Colonialism: A Mauritian Themed Resort, Tim Edensor, Cultural Studies, Staffordshire University and Uma Kothari, Insitute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester Doing it Right: Post-war Honeymoon Resorts in the Pocono Mountains, Barbara Penner, Architectural History and Theory, The Bartlett, University College London The Post-Modern Imagination "New Politics of the Spectacle: Bilbao and the Global Imagination," Joan Ockman, Architecture, Columbia University Egypt on Steroids: Luxor Las Vegas and Postmodern Orientalism, Jeffrey Cass, Language and Literature, Texas A M International University

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