Download or read book Tourism Imaginaries at the Disciplinary Crossroads written by Maria Gravari-Barbas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a unique analysis of current multidisciplinary research on the complex relationships between tourism and the imaginaries of tourist destinations, this book traces the links between tourism imaginaries and their religious (heaven) and political (utopia) antecedents. The substantive chapters are organised into three main thematic sections, the first explores the touristic production and consumption of place imaginaries, the second analyses the way places are practiced through imaginaries and the role imaginaries play in the tourist experience and the final section explores the way images and the media participate in the creation of tourism imaginaries.