Narratives of Travel and Tourism

Jacqueline Tivers, Independent Scholar and Visiting Lecturer in Geography and Tourism at University of the West of England, UK and Tijana Rakic, Lecturer in Tourism and Events & Deputy Programme Leader for Postgraduate Tourism Programmes at Edinburgh Napier University, UK

• Chapter 1 Introducing the Narratives of Travel and Tourism, Jacqueline Tivers, Tijana Raki?; Part I Travellers and their Narratives; Chapter 2 Travel Narratives of the Victorian Elite, Kathryn Wilkins; Chapter 3 A Family of Travellers, Pamela Richardson; Chapter 4 Narrating Travel and Tourism in Peace and Wartime, Home and Abroad, Paul Cleave; Chapter 5 ‘Keeping the Holiday Book’, Jacqueline Tivers; Chapter 6 Stories and (E)Motions, Lénia Marques, Maria Sofia, Pimentel Biscaia; Chapter 7 Representations of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Opera, David Botterill; Part II Place Narratives in Travel and Tourism; Chapter 8 Narrative Cartography in the Eighteenth Century, Emmanuelle Peraldo; Chapter 9 Posting Over Seas, Angharad Saunders; Chapter 10 Walking the Kumano Pilgrimage Roads (Japan) and Writing Diaries, Sylvie Guichard-Anguis; Chapter 11 Narratives and Counter-narratives, Chaim Noy; Chapter 12 Narratives of National versus ‘Universal’ Belonging of the Athenian Acropolis in Travel Guidebooks, Tijana Raki?;

'Narratives are a key data source in geography and tourism studies because they provide insights into spatial imaginary, situated knowledge and positionality. From a critical reading of narratives, what matters is the particular way places, events and people are portrayed. This argument is made in this book through diverse historical and contemporary examples including: the historical experiences contain in personal diaries from the English Victorian period; travel journals kept by a English family over fifty years from 1895-1945; "holiday books" written by one English man over 60 years from 1937-1996; the tropes of travel narrative found in twentieth century opera; the representation of places by eighteenth and nineteenth century British novelists and travellers; and the ways in which tourism and nation are linked together in contemporary Palestine, Israel and Greece. This book provides an essential guide to studying narratives of travel and tourism and marks an exciting transformation in how scholars think through these narratives.' Gordon Waitt, University of Wollongong, Australia