Mapping Tourism Stephen P. Hanna and Vincent J. Del Casino Jr., editors		$20.00 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-3956-6 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-3956-4 $60.00 Cloth ISBN: 0-8166-3955-8 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-3955-7
Looks at tourism maps to offer new insights into the social construction of place. At first glance, the relationships among tourists, tourism maps, and the spaces of tourism seem straightforward enough: tourists use maps to find their way to and through the sites of history, culture, nature, or recreation represented there. Less apparent is how tourism maps and those using them construct such spaces and identities. As the essays in Mapping Tourism clearly demonstrate, the extraordinary interactions of work with leisure and the everyday with the exotic make tourism maps ideal sites for exploring the contested construction of place and identity. Construction sites in the "New Berlin," Alabama's civil rights trail, Québec City, a California ghost town, and Bangkok's sex trade are among the spaces the essays examine. Taken together, these essays allow us to see tourist space as it truly is: contested, ever changing, and replete with issues of power. “The contributors to Mapping Tourism offer well-crafted examples of how best to explore tourism as process while never forgetting its complexity. This is a very strong collection and it deserves notice by scholars of tourism.” —Anthropological Theory “A splendid addition to theorising the spaces of tourism in which the editors have successfully secured key themes and critiques by the wisely chosen and interrelated case studies. Highly readable, Mapping Tourism is more widely relevant to theorising the representation and performance of space.” —Journal of Historical Geography “All of the chapters are well researched, coherently written and very interesting to read. This insightful and challenging form of research continues as an essential counterpoint to the propagandistic and expolitative tripe that is coming out of so many tourism authorities.” —Progress in Human Geography Contributors: Mary Curran, Dydia DeLyser, Owen J. Dwyer, John R. Gold, Margaret M. Gold, Rob Shields, Karen E. Till. Stephen P. Hanna is assistant professor of geography at Mary Washington College. Vincent J. Del Casino Jr. is assistant professor in geography and the liberal studies program at California State University, Long Beach. 256 pages | 25 halftones, 1 table, 13 maps | 5 7/8 x 9 | 2003