Gay Tourism - Gordon Waitt, Kevin Markwell

Gay Tourism

Culture and Context
Buch | Softcover
326 Seiten
2006
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7890-1603-4 (ISBN)
85,95 inkl. MwSt
The gay tourism industry a progressive social force or a pull towards an oppressive status quo? This book investigates the emergence of a commercial gay tourism industry for male clients, the way it is organized, and how the tourism industry promotes cities, resorts, and nations as 'gay' destinations.
The gay tourism industrya progressive social force or a pull towards an oppressive status quo?

The pink tourism dollar is now recognized as a highly profitable niche of the tourism market. Gay Tourism: Culture and Context critically investigates the emergence of a commercial gay tourism industry for male clients, the way it is organized, and how the tourism industry promotes cities, resorts, and nations as ’gay’ destinations. This careful examination critically questions the social, political, and cultural implications regarding relationships between gay tourism, Western gay male culture, the erotic, sexual politics, and sexual diversity.

Gay Tourism: Culture and Context begins by detailing how travel often enabled the expression of Western same-sex male desire in the nineteenth century and then charts the
emergence of a Western gay tourism industry in the late twentieth century. A critical analysis is given of gay guidebooks and erotic videos that help to establish and maintain destinations as seemingly gay utopias, including Hawaii and the Greek island Mykonos. Carefull consideration
as to debates about how the gay tourism industry operates in the context of questions regarding the globalization of sexuality, sexual citizenship and place-marketing of (homo)sexualised cities. The text includes an extensive bibliography plus several photographs, charts, and figures to
clearly present concepts and ideas.

Topics in Gay Tourism: Culture and Context include:



the history of gay travel and tourism

the effect of HIV/AIDS on gay tourist destinations

gay travel writing sustaining same-sex fantasies about popular gay tourist destinations

analysis of the socio-political ramifications of gay tourism

the sexual politics of a heterosexual nation

gay tourists as an invading force of corruption

the economic rationale for the (homo)sexualized city

the concept of gay villages

the role of special events and festivals in gay tourism

and many more!

Gay Tourism: Culture and Context is enlightening reading for tourism policymakers, tourism planners, tourism managers, and teachers and students in the fields of tourism studies, gay studies, social and cultural geography, and sociology.

Kevin Markwell, Gordon Waitt

Foreword (Mike Crang)

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Mapping the Terrain of Gay Tourism

Introduction

Gay Tourism in the Age of Mobility

Establishing Our Theoretical Framework

Approaching the TopicBecoming Personal

The Structure of the Book

Chapter 2. Charting the Emergence of Gay Tourism

Introduction

Scripting and Circulating Ideas About Homosexual Destinations in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

The Emergence of City and Resort Destinations, 1920-1969

Out and About: Bringing Gay Tourism Out of the Closet, 1969 to Present

Conclusion

Chapter 3. Selling Gay Paradise: Spatial and Social Discourse of Gay Tourism Travelogues

Travel, Texts, and Representations of Gay Paradise

Clarification on Method

Mapping Gay Destinations and Scripting Sexuality

Paradise of Australia: Imagining Australia As Macho-opolis

Paradise of the Russian Federation and Central Europe: Imagining Russia and Central Europe As Twink-opolis

Paradise of Hawai’i: Imagining Hawai’i As a Place of True Romantic Homosexual Love

Paradise of Gay Myknonos: Imagining Myknonos As Euro-Gay Cluboplois

Gay Sexual Utopias and Cultures of Gay Travel

Chapter 4. Touring the Heterosexual Nation

Introducing Gay Tourism and National Closets: Nationalism, Citizenship, and Sexuality

Nations and Nationalism: Performing an Imagined Heteronormative Community

Marketing Nations As Gay-Friendly Tourism Destinations: Reestablishing or Challenging the Imagined Heterosexual Family Nation?

Arabian State Encounters with Gay Tourism

Caribbean Encounters with Gay Tourism

Gay Tourism and Closeting of the Nation

Chapter 5. Touring the Sexualized City

Selling, Mapping, and Touring the City As Gay Villages

Selling Gay-Friendly Cities Through Inventing Bounded Gay Villages

Selling Sexualized City Spaces: Gay Villages As Spaces of Constructed Visibility

Nongay Narratives of Resistance to Pitching, Bounding, and Mapping City Spaces As Gay

Cities Through the Body: (Re)Sexualizing the Body Through Gay City Spaces

Queer Narrative of Resistance to Bounding Gay City Space: Marking Out the Gay Unwanted

Selling Gay to Nongay Tourists: The Straight Eye for Bent Attractions

Implications of Nongay Tourists in the Gay Village

Conclusion

Chapter 6. Special Events and Festivals

Celebration!Come On, Let’s Celebrate

Sexuality and the CityRelax, When You Want to Come: Gay Place Making Through Event Tourism

Where’s the Party?Spin Me Right Round, Round, Round

Why Party?Make Me Feel Mighty Real: The Significance of Special Events for Gay Tourism and Gay Cultures

Embodying Pride Through MarchingI Am What I Am

Playing the FieldWhat’s the Name of the Game?

A Gay Day OutJust a Perfect Day

Dancing the CircuitGet Into the Groove

ConclusionEverybody Needs Time to Celebrate

Chapter 7. Conclusions

Gay Tourism and the Constitution of Modern Gay Identities

Evolutionary Narratives of Gay Tourism

Internationalization of Gay Identities

Intersections with Social Difference

Gay Tourist Destinations Through the Body

Return to Oz

Bibliography

Publications

Videography

Index

Reference Notes Included

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.7.2006
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 498 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
Wirtschaft
ISBN-10 0-7890-1603-6 / 0789016036
ISBN-13 978-0-7890-1603-4 / 9780789016034
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