Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-233) and index.
Places to play, places in play /Mimi Sheller and John Urry -- Demobilizing and remobilizing Caribbean paradise /Mimi Sheller -- Islands in the sun : Cyprus /Richard Sharpley --Ecotourists on the beach /Rosaleen Duffy --Surfing : global space or dwelling in the waves? /Rob Shields --Little England's global conference centre : Harrogate / Viv Cuthill --Bodies, spirits and Incas : performing Machu Picchu / Alexandra Arellano --On the track of the Vikings /J? Ole BaeلأNnholdt and Michael Haldrup --Art exhibitions travel the world / Chia-Ling Lai --Reconstituting the Taj Mahal : tourist flows and glocalisation /Tim Edensor --The paradox of a tourist centre : Hong Kong as a site of play and a place of feat /Ngai-Ling Sum with Mei-Chi So -- Barcelona's games : the Olympics, urban design and global tourism / Monica Degen --Tourists in the concrete desert /Tue Halgreen -- Favela tours : indistinct and mapless representations of the real in Rio De Janeiro /Beatriz Jaguaribe and Kevin Hetherington --Playing online and between the lines : round-the-world websites as virtual places to play / Jennie Germann Molz --'Let's build a palm island!' : playfulness in complex times /Mattias Junemo --Atomica world : the place of nuclear tourism /Kathleen Sullivan --Death in Venice /John Urry.