Seductions of Place: Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes

This book assesses travel and tourism as simultaneously cultural and economic processes, through ideas about place seduction and the formation of landscapes. Throughout, examples are given from urban and environmental touristed landscapes, from major world cities to tropical islands, and chapter contributions include:

• an analysis of the representational character of landscape and the built environment
• historic constructions of place seduction
• the importance of class, racial, and gender dimensions of place
• how mobility and the seduction of place orient identity formation
• the environmental impacts of tourism economies.

Broad in scope, this book is ideal for social scientists and humanists who are interested in contemporary debates about place studies, mobility, and the located realities of globalization.