Travel, Tourism, and Identity

Gabriel R. Ricci is associate professor of humanities at Elizabethtown College, USA and the author of The Tempo of Modernity and Time Consciousness. He is also the editor of Transaction's Culture & Civilization series and Religion and Public Life series.

Introduction
Gabriel R. Ricci

1. The Importance of Dio's Travels
William Hutton

2. "Homer in a Nutshell": The Nostoi of J. F. Usko (1760–1841)
Maria Kostaridou

3. Greece in Travel Writing and Tourist Discourse: Cross-Cultural Encounters and the Construction of Classifications
Vasiliki Galani-Moutafi

4. Travel Writers and Greece: The Legacy of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor
David Wills

5. Know Thyself: An Anglo-Greek Author's Search for Roots and Identity
Loretta Proctor

6. "I Don't Know Where I Am—Boise or the Basque Country": Diaspora Identity Travel and Tourism
John P. Bieter and Nina M. Ray

7. Experiential Branding of Grenada's "Spice Island" Identity
Velvet Nelson

8. Measuring Identity: Indicators for Comparison of Real and Fictional Discourses on a Cultural Heritage City
Raquel Bello Vazquez

9. Identity Sustainability, Identity Affectivity, and the Ithaca Traveller: Conceptual Tools for Measuring and Modelling Tourism as an Opportunity
Elias J. Torres Feijo

10. Staged Authenticity and Identity Conflicts: Cultural Tourism in Africa
Kelly Virginia Phelan

11. Globalization, Migrations, and Personal Identity
A. Pablo Iannone

12. Midlife Single Men and the Solo Holiday
Bente Heimtun

13. Imagining "Home": Discovering Multiples Selves and Homes through Travel
Mahua Bhattacharya

14. Studying Abroad
Taso Lagos

15. "Massive Involvement": Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm and the Limits of "Reality Tourism"
Aeron Haynie

16. Grockles and Locals: Tourists, Service Providers, and Residents—Mutual Perceptions and the Reciprocal Gaze (A Mediterranean Case Study: Corfu, Greece)
Jim Potts

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