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Special issue introduction

Special issue introduction editorial ts tourist studies sage publications London, Nigel Morgan Thousand Oaks and New Delhi University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, UK vol 5(3) 203–205 DOI: 10.1177/ Irena Ateljevic www.sagepublications.com Wageningen University,The Netherlands Annette Pritchard University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, UK Candice Harris Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand This special issue emerged from the First International Critical Tourism Studies Conference, hosted by the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, the New Zealand Tourism Research Institute and the Institute for Tourism, Zagreb. Held in Dubrovnik from 30 June to 3 July 2005, Critical Tourism Studies 2005 was organ- ized to specifically foreground the critical school of thought developing in tourism studies through a focus on issues of embodiment and interpretative modes of tourism inquiry and attracted papers from over 70 delegates in 21 countries. The conference programme was based around seven themes, which were intended both to convey the over-arching ‘critical’ dimension of the event and to foreground innovative theoretical and methodological approaches.These were: performing and constructing identities; experiencing tourism; construct- ing and consuming tourism spaces; materiality, lifestyle and cultural practices; representation, language and culture; masculinity, femininity and the family; employment practice, experience and entrepreneurship. The conference generated enthusiastic and thought-provoking discussion http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Tourist Studies: An International Journal SAGE

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SAGE
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1468-7976
eISSN
1741-3206
DOI
10.1177/1468797605070328
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editorial ts tourist studies sage publications London, Nigel Morgan Thousand Oaks and New Delhi University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, UK vol 5(3) 203–205 DOI: 10.1177/ Irena Ateljevic www.sagepublications.com Wageningen University,The Netherlands Annette Pritchard University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, UK Candice Harris Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand This special issue emerged from the First International Critical Tourism Studies Conference, hosted by the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, the New Zealand Tourism Research Institute and the Institute for Tourism, Zagreb. Held in Dubrovnik from 30 June to 3 July 2005, Critical Tourism Studies 2005 was organ- ized to specifically foreground the critical school of thought developing in tourism studies through a focus on issues of embodiment and interpretative modes of tourism inquiry and attracted papers from over 70 delegates in 21 countries. The conference programme was based around seven themes, which were intended both to convey the over-arching ‘critical’ dimension of the event and to foreground innovative theoretical and methodological approaches.These were: performing and constructing identities; experiencing tourism; construct- ing and consuming tourism spaces; materiality, lifestyle and cultural practices; representation, language and culture; masculinity, femininity and the family; employment practice, experience and entrepreneurship. The conference generated enthusiastic and thought-provoking discussion

Journal

Tourist Studies: An International JournalSAGE

Published: Dec 1, 2005

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