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Shaping Southeast Asia: tracing tourism imaginaries in guidebooks and travel blogs
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Abstract "Tourism constitutes both an economic activity and a cultural force that involves a dynamic interplay between travelers and their ideas about the societies they visit. This paper traces the construction and negotiation of 'tourism imaginaries' (Salazar, 2012) in popular guidebooks and independent tr... view more
"Tourism constitutes both an economic activity and a cultural force that involves a dynamic interplay between travelers and their ideas about the societies they visit. This paper traces the construction and negotiation of 'tourism imaginaries' (Salazar, 2012) in popular guidebooks and independent travel-blogs, critically examining questions of representation and power relations in a Southeast Asian context. Employing critical discourse analysis, this paper investigates how particular Southeast Asian destinations are represented from a Western perspective. Whereas long-established commercial media such as guidebooks function mainly to communicate destination images to the reader, recent participatory media formats (e.g. travel-blogs) are more experienced-based and enable tourists to form ideas about foreign places in idiosyncratic ways. The preliminary insights of this study show that hegemonic narratives from guidebooks are rather reproduced than critically challenged and subverted in the examples under review." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
Southeast Asia; tourism; travel; weblog
Classification
Leisure Research
Free Keywords
guidebooks; tourism and destination images; tourism imaginaries
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Page/Pages
p. 203-208
Journal
ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 8 (2015) 2
ISSN
1999-253X
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works