Pseudo-Authenticity and Tourism

Pseudo-Authenticity and Tourism Preservation, Miniaturization, and Replication - Routledge Insights in Tourism Series

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Publisher's Synopsis

This book explores the concept of authenticity in tourism through the analysis of six tourist sites in Guangdong Province and Macau, China.

Through a review of tourism literature, it develops the concept of pseudo-authenticity in which tourist sites and cultural products function to give signs of authenticity for tourists. This is achieved through the influence of media, authentic fakery, and façadism. Readers will gain greater insight into tourist sites in China that operate through cultural preservation, the miniaturization of cultural assets, and the replication of foreign signs through reproductions of foreign cities. The authors outline the tourist sites, an aesthetic analysis, on-site interviews with tourists, and an examination of online reviews of the sites.

This is a useful work for scholars and students of tourism studies in China and around the world, especially those concerned with issues of authenticity and the effects of commodification on cultural assets.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781032272108
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 338.47910951
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 152
Weight: 276g
Height: 142mm
Width: 224mm
Spine width: 14mm