Tourism at the Olympic Games Visiting the World
Coordonnateurs : Robinson Mike, Ploner Josef
Going far beyond being just a mega sport event, the Olympic Games are, and have been in the past, important settings for tourism and cultural change. Hosting the Olympic Games presents a unique opportunity for countries to promote, regenerate, and develop cities and regions, and to firmly locate them within an increasingly competitive global tourism marketplace. From Athens to Rio de Janeiro, Olympic landmark buildings, ?districts?, and ?parks? have permanently transformed cities and regions, and gained tremendous material and symbolic value as tourist attractions. On another level, the Olympic Games produce a kaleidoscopic range of intangible and quasi-religious engagements with place and spectacle. They have a tremendous impact on the image of the host country, while invoking collective memories and touching on emotions such as suspense, compassion, togetherness, and pride. Tourism has also become a major watchword in ongoing debates on the ?legacy? of the Olympic Games, and it deeply penetrates discourses on social justice and cultural change on a local, national and global scale. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change.
1. Tourism at the Olympic Games: visiting the world2. The possessive logic of settler-invader nations in Olympic ceremonies3. The religion in Olympic tourism4. Culture and the 2012 Games: creating a tourism legacy?5. Peking Duck as a museum spectacle: staging local heritage for Olympic tourism6. Tourism aspects of the XVII Rome Olympiad7. Government motivations for hosting the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games8. Turin 2006 Olympic Winter Games: impacts and legacies from a tourism perspective
Mike Robinson is Professor of Cultural Heritage, and Director of the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage, at the University of Birmingham, UK. His interests lie in the production and consumption of categories of heritage within changing cultural and cross-cultural contexts. He is particularly interested in how tourists experience the past, and how tourism works with heritage to shape identities at the individual and collective levels.
Josef Ploner is a Lecturer in International Education at the University of Hull, UK. He is a cultural anthropologist who specialises in cultural and heritage tourism, travel and tourism as forms of learning, narrative ordering, and the formation of personal and collective memory. Furthermore, his research also focuses on global student mobilities and cross-cultural experiences in international Higher Education settings.
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Mots-clés :
ISSN; social justice; Olympic Tourism; collective memory; Olympic Games; tourist attractions; Cultural Olympiad; Olympic landmarks; Chinese Government; global tourism; International Olympic Committee; regeneration; IOC; legacy; Possessive Logic; spectacle; XVII Olympiad; cultural change; Olympic Cultural Program; tourism; Roast Duck; Intangible Cultural Heritage; De Coubertin; Government Bodies; Regione Piemonte; Forbidden City; Culinary Tourism; Beijing Municipal Government; Provincial Tourism Board; Peking Duck; Corporate Museums; Tourism Legacies; Young Man; Public Administration; Olympic Ceremonies