Pseudo-Authenticity and Tourism: Preservation, Miniaturization, and Replication (Routledge Insights in Tourism Series)
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- Synopsis
- This book explores the concept of authenticity in tourism through the analysis of six tourist sites in Guangdong Province and Macau, China. Through a review of tourism literature, it develops the concept of pseudo-authenticity in which tourist sites and cultural products function to give signs of authenticity for tourists. This is achieved through the influence of media, authentic fakery, and façadism. Readers will gain greater insight into tourist sites in China that operate through cultural preservation, the miniaturization of cultural assets, and the replication of foreign signs through reproductions of foreign cities. The authors outline the tourist sites, an aesthetic analysis, on-site interviews with tourists, and an examination of online reviews of the sites. This is a useful work for scholars and students of tourism studies in China and around the world, especially those concerned with issues of authenticity and the effects of commodification on cultural assets.
- Copyright:
- 2024
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 124 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781000998450
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781032272108, 9781003291817, 9781032272115
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 08/30/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman and Andy Lihua Chen, The right of Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman and Andy Lihua Chen to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Travel, Business and Finance
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.