Identity and Intercultural Exchange in Travel and Tourism (Tourism and Cultural Change, 42)

This ebook appears on the relationship between questions of identification formation and trendy practices in travelling and tourism. Unprecedented ranges of mobility and worldwide alternate during the last 100 years have raised questions in regards to the stability of nationwide and private identities and new and inventive patterns of behaviour and self-realisation at the moment are rising as a result of huge business pursuits that lie behind the trendy journey and tourism industries. The amount will think about these points and the challenges they create in numerous geographical contexts (Germany, Spain, Romania, Italy, Africa) and concludes with a lot of case research from the Portuguese context, the place the revenues from tourism are integral to its economic system and a lifeline within the present financial disaster.