Posts tagged with ‘Travel Cultures Network’
The implications of Lacanian Theory for understanding authenticity in tourism
Presented by the Travel Cultures Network in collaboration with the Development Studies Association – Tourism Study Group, as part of the 2017-2018 seminar series: Authenticity and Development Discourses in Tourism.
Tags: Authenticity and Development Discourses in Tourism, Development Studies Association, Lacanian theory, Professor Daniel Knudsen, tourism, Tourism Study Group, Travel Cultures Network
World heritage: authenticity, development and espistemological de-linking
In this presentation we focus on World Heritage Sites within five Anglophone Caribbean SIDS and problematise the extent to which their representations are ‘authentic’ and the role they play in the (under)development of these countries.
Tags: Development Studies Association, Professor Donna Chambers, Tourism Study Group, Travel Cultures Network, UNESCO World Heritage, World Heritage
Welcoming animals: the borders of hospitality
The Travel Cultures Network and Professor Judith Still present ‘Welcoming animals: the borders of hospitality’. This paper will consider the defining of hospitality and inhospitality in more than one language in relation to ‘man’ and his ‘others’.
Tags: hospitality, Judith Still, School of Cultures Languages and Area Studies, tourism, Travel Cultures Network
Researching multilingually: dialogues between tourism and language learning
The Travel Cultures Network welcome Professor Alison Phipps, University of Glasgow, to deliver the lecture ‘Researching multilingually: dialogues between tourism and language learning’.
Tags: Alison Phipps, language, language learning, Modern Languages, tourism, Travel Cultures Network, University of Glasgow
‘Hospitelity’: assembling care in medical tourism
The Travel Cultures Network welcomes Dr David Bell from The University of Leeds to deliver ‘”Hospitelity”: assembling care in medical tourism’. Admission free, all welcome.
Tags: David Bell, hospitality, medicine, tourism, Travel Cultures Network, University of Leeds, University Park