Gay Tourism: Culture and ContextPsychology Press, 2006 - 307 pagine The gay tourism industrya progressive social force or a pull towards an oppressive status quo? The pink tourism dollar is now recognized as a highly profitable niche of the tourism market. Gay Tourism: Culture and Context critically investigates the emergence of a commercial gay tourism industry for male clients, the way it is organized, and how the tourism industry promotes cities, resorts, and nations as 'gay' destinations. This careful examination critically questions the social, political, and cultural implications regarding relationships between gay tourism, Western gay male culture, the erotic, sexual politics, and sexual diversity. Gay Tourism: Culture and Context begins by detailing how travel often enabled the expression of Western same-sex male desire in the nineteenth century and then charts the Topics in Gay Tourism: Culture and Context include:
Gay Tourism: Culture and Context is enlightening reading for tourism policymakers, tourism planners, tourism managers, and teachers and students in the fields of tourism studies, gay studies, social and cultural geography, and sociology. |
Sommario
Charting the Emergence of Gay Tourism | 39 |
Spatial and Social | 77 |
Mapping Gay Destinations and Scripting Sexuality | 85 |
Touring the Heterosexual Nation | 125 |
Touring the Sexualized City | 159 |
Special Events and Festivals | 203 |