Culture and society in tourism contexts / A.-M. Nogués-Pedregal, [editor].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-248).

Introduction / A.-M. Nogues-Pedregal -- chapter 1. Instrumental cosmopolitanism : the 'valorization' of heritage and sociality in Mediterranean cities / Julie Scott -- chapter 2. Touring the frontier : reinventing the eastern Adriatic for tourism / Emilio Cocco -- chapter 3. When the desirable and the feasible converge through tourism space / A.-M. Nogues-Pedregal -- chapter 4. Negotiating Marrakech : postcolonial travels in Morocco / Lauren Wagner, Claudio Minca -- chapter 5. Building tourism in Costa Blanca : second homes, second chances? / Antonio Aledo, Jens Kr. Steen Jacobsen, Leif Selstad -- chapter 6. Across social categories and boundaries : transnational mobilities and interculturality / Regina Romhild -- chapter 7. Borders of (in)visibility in the Greek Aegean / Heath Cabot, Ramona Lenz -- Conclusion : sociocultural nature and context of tourism / A.-M. Nogues-Pedregal.

The work of several social scientists, from different interdisciplinary backgrounds, over numerous years is documented using multiple research techniques to observe cultures and societies as they occur in daily practices. This analysis discovers how tourism characterizes the daily lives of social groups living in tourists' destinations and how it offers a distinctive sense of collective memories, thus unfolding cultures and societies in tourism contexts.