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Book Review: Experiencescapes: Tourism, Culture and Economy

Book Review: Experiencescapes: Tourism, Culture and Economy book reviews ts tourist studies sage publications London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi vol 5(1) 107–110 DOI: 10.1177/ www.sagepublications.com Experiencescapes: Tourism, Culture and Economy by Tom O’Dell and Peter Billing (eds). Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press, 2005. 196 pp. ISBN 87–630–0150–0 The notion of an experience economy has arguably become one of the latest aca- demic fashions to have been generated from the halls of the Harvard Business School. As with many academic fashions, it does not take very long before it begins to be realized that, as with a number of concepts from the Harvard School, what in fact we are dealing with is something that has been borrowed from other parts of the academy and then cleverly repackaged and redesigned with a very immediate use-by date (either that or they are not very good at acknowledging other people’s ideas or using a library). Unfortunately, a number of people within the field of tourism studies have failed to realize this and instead have jumped on the Harvard bandwagon and paid homage without due critique of what has been presented for the consumption of those who primarily buy their management textbooks from airport bookstores. Fortunately, the essays in this http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Tourist Studies: An International Journal SAGE

Book Review: Experiencescapes: Tourism, Culture and Economy

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book reviews ts tourist studies sage publications London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi vol 5(1) 107–110 DOI: 10.1177/ www.sagepublications.com Experiencescapes: Tourism, Culture and Economy by Tom O’Dell and Peter Billing (eds). Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press, 2005. 196 pp. ISBN 87–630–0150–0 The notion of an experience economy has arguably become one of the latest aca- demic fashions to have been generated from the halls of the Harvard Business School. As with many academic fashions, it does not take very long before it begins to be realized that, as with a number of concepts from the Harvard School, what in fact we are dealing with is something that has been borrowed from other parts of the academy and then cleverly repackaged and redesigned with a very immediate use-by date (either that or they are not very good at acknowledging other people’s ideas or using a library). Unfortunately, a number of people within the field of tourism studies have failed to realize this and instead have jumped on the Harvard bandwagon and paid homage without due critique of what has been presented for the consumption of those who primarily buy their management textbooks from airport bookstores. Fortunately, the essays in this

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