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Travel, tourism and art

Travel, tourism and art 278 Book Reviews Travel, tourism and art, by T. Rakić and J. Lester, Ashgate, Surrey, 2013, xiii+240 pp., £65.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-4724-1039-9 Tourism destination image and travel motivations are two essential and fundamental areas in tourism studies as they interact with each other to affect visitors’ expectation, decisions, behaviors and satisfaction. Like any philosophical studies, tourism has to delve upon three key issues, which are truth, virtue and beauty. Truth represents authenticity, virtue refers to responsibility, while beauty symbolizes esthetic elements congealed in physical landscape and culture, artworks to be more specific. This book is no exception in terms of dealing with the aforementioned essential issues and topics as it takes the readers through an artistic journey that touches upon various art forms such as literature, posters, opera, carving, ceramic arts, etc. The book highlights the intertwined relationships among beauty (the artworks per se), truth (the authenticity of the artworks and the image they represent) and virtue (responsibility and sustainability of cultural tourism). It also devotes a substantial part to cover how the artworks represent the destinations and stimulate visitors’ motivations to visit the destination. The book is divided into 4 parts and 15 chapters with Chapter 1 serving http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change Taylor & Francis

Travel, tourism and art

Pan, Steve
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change , Volume 13 (3): 3 – Jul 3, 2015
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2014, Steve Pan
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1747-7654
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1476-6825
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10.1080/14766825.2014.928078
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278 Book Reviews Travel, tourism and art, by T. Rakić and J. Lester, Ashgate, Surrey, 2013, xiii+240 pp., £65.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-4724-1039-9 Tourism destination image and travel motivations are two essential and fundamental areas in tourism studies as they interact with each other to affect visitors’ expectation, decisions, behaviors and satisfaction. Like any philosophical studies, tourism has to delve upon three key issues, which are truth, virtue and beauty. Truth represents authenticity, virtue refers to responsibility, while beauty symbolizes esthetic elements congealed in physical landscape and culture, artworks to be more specific. This book is no exception in terms of dealing with the aforementioned essential issues and topics as it takes the readers through an artistic journey that touches upon various art forms such as literature, posters, opera, carving, ceramic arts, etc. The book highlights the intertwined relationships among beauty (the artworks per se), truth (the authenticity of the artworks and the image they represent) and virtue (responsibility and sustainability of cultural tourism). It also devotes a substantial part to cover how the artworks represent the destinations and stimulate visitors’ motivations to visit the destination. The book is divided into 4 parts and 15 chapters with Chapter 1 serving

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