Chapter 1. The ‘Consuming’ of Place

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Contributors viii
5. Introduction. Discourse, Communication and Tourism Dialogues 1
6. Part 1: The Semiotics of Tourist Spaces, Landscapes and Destinations
7. Chapter 1. The ‘Consuming’ of Place 19
8. Chapter 2. Alternative India: Transgressive Spaces 28
9. Chapter 3. Representations of ‘Ethnographic Knowledge’: Early Comic Postcards of Wales 53
10. Part 2: The Discursive Construction and Representation of the Tourist Experience
11. Chapter 4. Exclusive, Ethno and Eco: Representations of Culture and Nature in Tourism Discourses in Namibia 79
12. Chapter 5. Venice Observed: The Traveller, The Tourist, The Post-Tourist and British Television 98
13. Part 3: Identities on the Move
14. Chapter 6. Discourses of Polish Agritourism: Global, Local, Pragmatic 123
15. Chapter 7. Tourist or Traveller? Narrating Backpacker Identity 150
16. Part 4: Performance and Authenticity
17. Chapter 8. Tourism Performance as Metaphor: Enacting Backpacker Travel in the Fiji Islands 173
18. Chapter 9. Wales Underground: Discursive Frames and Authenticities in Welsh Mining Heritage Tourism Events 199
19. Chapter 10. ‘Just Perfect!’ The Pragmatics of Evaluation in Holiday Postcards 223
20. Index 247