From heritage to terrorism : regulating tourism in an age of uncertainty / Brian Simpson and Cheryl Simpson.

Author
Simpson, Brian [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Routledge, 2011.
Description
xi, 195 pages ; 25 cm

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    Subject(s)
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • PART I. Law in tourism
    • 1. Conceptualising tourism and the tourist as a legal problem
    • Law and the shifting objectives of tourism
    • The relationship between the state, law and tourism
    • Marketplace versus the public interest
    • The different discourses of law and tourism
    • National government and tourism
    • The state, class and the human right to tourism
    • The politics of tourism
    • Regulating tourism in an age of uncertainty: tourism as legal discourse
    • PART II. Tourism as a just cause
    • 2. Establishing the exalted tourist
    • Constructing the tourist as a cultural terrorist
    • Tourism as a noble pursuit
    • We are all tourists now
    • The World Tourism Organization and the construction of the exalted tourist
    • Extending the exalted tourist
    • Regulating uncertainties: ethical travel in an age of terrorism, climate change and swine flu
    • 3. The urban tourist: inserting the tourist into the cityscape
    • Tourism and cities
    • Urban image and the promotion of tourism
    • Alternative layers of the city
    • Marketing the city and the loss of its (legal) soul
    • Defining and preserving heritage
    • Creating the image of the safe city
    • Special laws, special events and public order
    • The modern city as l̀egilopolis'
    • 4. The exalted cultural tourist: gazing on culture
    • Cultural property and tourism
    • Cultural institutions and the city: the museum and art gallery
    • The museum and the marketplace
    • The exalted tourist and the Indigenous dollar
    • Land rights, tourism and changing patterns of land usage
    • The preservation of Indigenous culture and tourism
    • Beneath the superficial
    • Meaningful tourism and Indigenous culture
    • Indigenous culture, competing meanings and rights
    • PART III. Tourism as transgression
    • 5. The targeted tourist: the legal construction of fear
    • Tourism and injustice
    • Tourism and repression
    • Tourism as repression
    • The role of international law
    • Tourists as targets and the ẁar against terror'
    • The loss of innocence: tourists as political targets
    • The politics and moral panic of travel advisories
    • Tourism and the construction of fear
    • 6. The pleasure tourist: sex tourism as a legal dilemma
    • Sex, pleasure and tourism
    • Sex work and tourism
    • Prostitution as a tourist attraction
    • Sex tourism vs child-sex tourism
    • Tourism discourse and child-sex tourism
    • Laws on child-sex tourism
    • Codes of conduct as regulation
    • Tourism and legal discourse in sex tourism
    • 7. Work and death in tourism: from darkness to voyeurism
    • Regulating tourism work
    • Uncertainty and the global financial crisis
    • Hidden work and the law
    • Death as a tourist experience
    • Death as a tourist attraction
    • The role of transgression in tourism
    • PART IV. Tourism in law
    • 8. Conclusion: tourism as a legal problem
    • Legal silence
    • Limiting the right to travel
    • Non-tourism as the new just cause.
    ISBN
    • 9780415425599
    • 041542559X
    LCCN
    2010003048
    OCLC
    511611689
    RCP
    C - S
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