Author: Edited by Jan Rath
ISBN: 9780203413869

Immigration & Emigration - General & Miscellaneous, Ethnic & Minority Studies - General & Miscellaneous, Human Geography

by Edited by Jan Rath

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Overview

Ethnic diversity has become a crucial component of the cultural capital of post-industrial cities. More and more travellers, leisure seekers and others in cosmopolitan cities indulge in ethno-cultural events and festivals and gravitate to the centers of immigrant ethnic commerce. In so doing, these events, festivals and centers enhance the livability, fuel the job machine and foster the branding of these cities.

Tourism, Ethnicity and the City entails an exploration of manifestations of cultural diversity by immigrant ethnic groups in cosmopolitan cities, and deals with the question of how these cultural manifestations are transformed into a vehicle for socio-economic development to the advantage of both immigrants and the city at large. The primary focus of this book is the role of immigrant entrepreneurs and workers in the emerging ethnic tourist industry as well as their interaction with public, private and civil society actors in this sector. As the opportunities of the immigrant tourist industry are contingent on national and local circumstances, the chapters cover different cities in different countries.

The book is situated at the crossroads of two fields of research, namely ethnic entrepreneurship and urban tourism. By addressing this problem from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective, the book aims at a much more thorough understanding of the structural dynamics of commercial manifestations of cultural diversity by immigrants, as well as their impact on immigrants' connection to the knowledge economy and urban socio-economic development in general.

Synopsis

Tourism, Ethnic Diversity And The City Fills A Gap In Existing Research In Terms Of How Immigration Relates To Urban Tourism And Investigates The New Theoretical Insights And Challenges For Empirical Research Using Informative Case Studies Drawn From Several Advanced Economies In Europe, North America And Australia. This Enlightening Book Clearly Explores The Frontiers Of Knowledge On The Interrelationship Between Tourism, Migration, Ethnic Diversity And Place. Exploring Further The Manifestations Of Ethnic Diversity That Have Been Commodified By Immigrants In Gateway Cities, Questioning How These Expressions Of Culture Can Be Transformed Into Vehicles For Further Developing The Urban Tourism Economy. Tourism, Ethnic Diversity And The City Presents A Multidisciplinary Approach Drawing On Key Names From The Field Of Geography, Sociology, Planning And Political Science And Will Appeal To Those With An Interest In Any Of These Areas.--publisher's Description. Tourism, Migration And Place Advantage In The Global Cultural Economy / C. Michael Hall And Jan Rath -- Making The New Economy : Immigrant Entrepreneurs And Emerging Transnational Networks Of International Education And Tourism In Seoul And Vancouver / Min-jung Kwak And Daniel Hiebert -- Urban Boosterism, Tourism And Ethnic Minority Enterprise In Birmingham / Trevor Jones And Monder Ram -- Ethnic Precincts As Contradictory Tourist Spaces / Jock Collins -- Caterers Of The Consumed Metropolis : Ethnicized Tourism And Entertainment Labourscapes In Istanbul / Volkan Aytar -- Immigrants, Tourists And The Metropolitan Landscape : Producing The Metropolis Of Consumption In Orlando, Florida / Hugh Bartling -- Ethnic Heritage Tourism And Global-local Connections In New Orleans / Kevin Fox Gotham -- Tourism And New York's Ethnic Diversity : An Underutilized Resource? / Susan S. Fainstein And John C. Powers -- Selling Miami : Tourism Promotion And Immigrant Neighbourhoods In The Capital Of Latin America / Gastón Alonso -- Building A Market Of Ethnic References : Activism And Diversity In Multicultural Settings In Lisbon / M. Margarida Marques And Francisco Lima Da Costa -- Tourists 'r'us : Immigrants, Ethnic Tourism And The Marketing Of Metropolitan Boston / Marilyn Halter. Edited By Jan Rath. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.