[Tps] TPS/ECPR Policy Network - New Book Announcement TOURISM, ETHNIC DIVERSITY AND THE CITY

[Navdeep Mathur]

Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City
Edited by Jan Rath
November 2006: 234x156: 232pp
Hb: 0-415-33390-0

Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility Series


London and New York: Routledge, November 2006
Cloth £75  isbn 0415333903

Summary
It is hard to imagine urban tourism today without immigrants.
Immigrants often provide the cheap labour or the entrepreneurial drive
for the urban tourism industry. Moreover, their real or imagined
cultural expressions are increasingly discernible amongst the
'objects' of urban tourism. More and more travellers, leisure seekers
and business investors in gateway cities are indulging in
ethnocultural events and festivals and are gravitating to centres of
immigrant ethnic commerce. The urban tourist economy is thus becoming
one of the interfaces between immigrants from all strata of society
and the wider economy.
Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City explores the manifestations of
ethnic diversity that have been commodified by immigrants in gateway
cities, and it asks how these expressions of culture can be
transformed into vehicles for further developing the urban tourism
economy. The primary focus is on the role of immigrant entrepreneurs
and workers in the emerging urban tourism industry and on their
interactions with other players in that industry. The relative roles
of public, private and civil society actors are important points of
attention. By addressing these issues from an interdisciplinary and
comparative perspective, a more thorough understanding of the
structural dynamics of immigrants' commercial manifestations of ethnic
diversity is sought. The book further examines how such activities
serve to integrate immigrants into the knowledge economy and how they
impact upon urban socioeconomic development as a whole.
Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City clearly explores the frontiers
of knowledge on the interrelationship between tourism, migration,
ethnic diversity and place. It investigates the new theoretical
insights and challenges for empirical research using case studies
drawn from several advanced economies in Europe, North America and
Australia




Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City fills a gap in existing
research in terms of
how immigration relates to urban tourism and investigates the new theoretical
insights and challenges for empirical research using informative case studies
drawn from several advanced economies in Europe, North America and
Australia.
This enlightening book clearly explores the frontiers of knowledge on the
interrelationship between tourism, migration, ethnic diversity and place.
Exploring further the manifestations of ethnic diversity that have been
commodified by immigrants in gateway cities, questioning how these
expressions of culture can be transformed into vehicles for further developing
the urban tourism economy.
Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City presents a multidisciplinary approach
drawing on key names from the field of geography, sociology, planning and
political science and will appeal to those with an interest in any of
these areas.
Contents:
1. Tourism, migration and place advantage in the global cultural economy C.
Michael Hall and Jan Rath Part 1 Immigrant entrepreneurs
2. Making the new
economy: Immigrant entrepreneurs and emerging transnational networks
of international education and tourism in Seoul and Vancouver Min-Jung
Kwak and
Daniel Hiebert
3. Urban boosterism, tourism and ethnic minority enterprise in
Birmingham Trevor Jones and Monder Ram
4. Ethnic precincts as contradictory tourist spaces Jock Collins

Part 2 Immigrant workers

5. Caterers of the consumed metropolis: Ethnicized tourism and
entertainment labourscapes in Istanbul Volkan Aytar
6. Immigrants, tourists and the metropolitan landscape: Producing
the metropolis of consumption in Orlando, Florida Hugh Bartling

Part 3 Ethnic diversity in urban place promotion

7. Ethnic heritage tourism and global–local connections in New Orleans
Kevin Fox Gotham

8. Tourism and New York's ethnic diversity: An underutilized resource?
Susan S. Fainstein and John C. Powers
9. Selling Miami: Tourism promotion and immigrant neighbourhoods in
the Capital of
Latin America Gastón Alonso
10. Building a market of ethnic references: Activism and diversity in
multicultural settings in Lisbon M. Margarida Marques and Francisco
Lima da Costa
11. Tourists 'R' Us: Immigrants, ethnic tourism and the marketing of
metropolitan Boston Marilyn Halter


Jan Rath
University of Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
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