Authors: Dennis R. Judd (Editor), Susan S. Fainstein
ISBN-13: 9780300078466, ISBN-10: 0300078463
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: May 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Throughout the world, cities vie for tourist dollars in a competition so intense that they sometimes totally reconstruct their downtowns and waterfronts to attract tourists. Growing at an astonishing pace, urban tourism now plays a pivotal role in the economic development strategies of urban governments around the globe. In this book, distinguished urban experts from a variety of disciplines investigate tourism and its transforming impact on cities.
As cities become places to play, the authors show, tourism recasts their spatial form. In some cities, separate spaces devoted to tourism and leisure are carved out. Other cities more readily absorb tourists into daily urban life, though even these cities undergo transformation of their character. The contributors examine such U. S. tourist meccas as Las Vegas, Orlando, Boston, and New York City's Times Square and continue on an international tour that looks at pilgrimage sites (Jerusalem), newly created resorts (CancĂșn), and places of artistic and historic interest (Prague). Other chapters take up important themes concerning the marketing of cities, how tourists perceive places, the construction of tourism infrastructure, and strategies for drawing tourists, including sports, riverboat gambling, and sex tourism in Southeast Asia.
Global Forces, Local Strategies, and Urban Tourism | 1 | |
Pt. I | The Political Economy of Tourism | |
Evaluating Urban Tourism | 21 | |
Constructing the Tourist Bubble | 35 | |
Marketing Cities for Tourism | 54 | |
Sensing the City | 71 | |
Pt. II | Constructing Cities as Theme Parks | |
Walt Disney World and Orlando: Deregulation as a Strategy for Tourism | 89 | |
Las Vegas: Casino Gambling and Local Culture | 107 | |
Cancun Bliss | 124 | |
Pt. III | Converting Cities into Tourist Sites | |
The City: Strategic Site for the Global Entertainment Industry | 143 | |
The New Boston Discovers the Old: Tourism and the Struggle for a Livable City | 155 | |
Culture Meets Commerce: Tourism in Postcommunist Prague | 179 | |
Tourism in Jerusalem: A Place to Pray | 198 | |
Pt. IV | Tourism Strategies | |
Tourism and Sports: The Serious Competition for Play | 215 | |
Riverboat Gambling, Tourism, and Economic Development | 233 | |
International Tourism and the Cities of Southeast Asia | 245 | |
Cities as Places to Play | 261 | |
Contributors | 273 | |
Notes | 279 | |
References | 301 | |
Index | 333 |