Description: List of figures. List of contributors.1 Tourism fictions, simulacra and virtualities: write, stage and play the tourist game. Part 1: Fictions 2 White lies: reclaiming Rio de Janeirös denied slave past in the touristic redevelopment of the old port. 3 Palacy-in-progress: re-imagining East Prussian country estates in post-socialist tourism landscapes of Northeast Poland. 4 Tourist bubbles in the Alps: sliding from the sublime into picturesque worlds. 5 Iconic architecture or theme park? Seville¿s cinematographic reinvention for tourism purposes (1914¿1930). Part 2: Simulacra 6 (Re)Presenting paradise: the Hawaiian imaginary in Las Vegas. 7 Tourism, simulacra and architectural reconstruction: selling an idealised past. 8 From the Lascaux cave to Lascaux IV: repetition and transformation of a simulacrum. 9 An oriental town patterned upon movies concepts: China City, a tourist simulacrum in Los Angeles (1938¿1948). Part 3: Virtualities 10 The city of light in the city of signs: virtuality and tourism at Paris, Las Vegas. 11 To be a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. On architecture, computer games and tourist experience in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. 12 Virtualities in the new tourism landscape: the case of the Anne Frank House virtual tour and of the visualizations of the Berlin Wall in the Cold War context. 13 Iconic architecture in tourism: (how) does it work? Index
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EAN: 9781032338057
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ISBN: 9781032338057
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Format: Paperback, 272 pages
Author: Maria Gravari-Barbas (Edited by)
Book Title: Tourism Fictions, Simulacra and Virtualities (Cont
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Language: Eng
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
