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Tourist Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, 59-81 (2001)

Performing tourism, staging tourism: (re)producing tourist space and practice

Tim Edensor

Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK

This article explores the metaphor of performance to investigate how tourism can be conceived as a set of activities, imbricated with the everyday, whereby conventions are reinforced and broken. By looking at the contexts in which tourism is regulated, directed and choreographed or, alternatively, is a realm of improvisation and contestation, I will consider the constraints and opportunities which shape the ways in which tourist space (here considered as 'stages') and performance are reproduced, challenged, transformed and bypassed. A range of examples will be used to exemplify the ways in which tourism is staged and performed. I will also focus on how the global proliferation of tourist practices and attractions acts to theme tourist space in highly commodified ways and simultaneously decentre normative modes of performing tourism.

Key Words: contestation; direction; embodiment; everyday; habitus; improvisation; performance; reflexivity; regulation; stage


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