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Article

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This item is available under a Creative Commons License for non-commercial use only

Disciplines

Urban studies (Planning and development)

Publication Details

In Annals of Tourism Research, Vol.34, issue 2, pp. 458-476. Available from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=PublicationURL&_tockey=%23TOC%235855%232007%23999659997%23646215%23FLA%23&_cdi=5855&_pubType=J&_auth=y&_acct=C000056897&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=2322584&md5=927567d45d35cfe8f9527ce890214593

Abstract

In contrast to the growing literature on tourist mobility as a performed art, relatively little attention has been paid to resident mobility in tourism places. This paper examines how residents encounter tourists using the concept of tourism as a performance. Drawing on the case of the historic city-center of Venice in northeastern Italy, it explores the spatialities produced through the embodied practices of local mobilities. The paper finds that their movements demonstrated a marked degree of agency. It concludes by arguing that the concept of tourism as performance affords useful insights into how local residents are proactively and intricately involved in reconfiguring relationships and mobilities with and within tourism places.

DOI

10.21427/D7262N

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