Tourism and Brexit

Travel, Borders and Identity

Edited by Dr. Hazel Andrews

Publication date:

09 October 2020

Publisher

Channel View Publications

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781845417918

This book is the first to explore the relationship between tourism and Brexit from a social science perspective. As the UK repositions itself in the uncharted waters of a post-Brexit world the book considers three interconnected themes all bound up in touristic practices: travel, borders and identity. The volume uses diverse examples, including UK-Polish tourism, royal events, Arthurian-based heritage in Cornwall, media representations of Brits abroad, ideas of freedom on holiday in Mallorca, the impacts of Brexit on migrant workers in Mallorca and on tourism for Commonwealth and Overseas Territories. Contributors to the book are based in the UK, EU, Southeast Asia, USA, Australia and New Zealand, giving the analysis a strongly international focus. It will be useful for students and researchers in tourism, migration, European studies, social anthropology, geography and sociology.

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Contributors

Foreword: Tom Selwyn

Chapter 1. Hazel Andrews: The Magic and Liminality of Tourism and Brexit

Chapter 2. Alexandra Pimor: ‘Travel broadens the mind and enriches the soul’ – Exploring the Significance of Tourism and Brexit on the Spiritual Dimension of European Integration.

Chapter 3. Catherine Palmer: The Order of Things: Brexit and the Challenge of Identity

Chapter 4. Vivian B. Gornik: Uses of the Past: Heritage, Tourism, and the Challenges of (Re)Producing Contemporary National Identities in England

Chapter 5. Jennifer Frost and Warwick Frost: Royal Events and Tourism in the Post-Brexit Era

Chapter 6. Sabina Owsianowska and Magdalena Banaszkiewicz: Brexit and Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland

Chapter 7. Mark Casey: From Duty Free to Benidorm: British Tourists in Spain in an Age of Brexit

Chapter 8. Hazel Andrews: Taking Back Control: The Freedom of the Holiday

Chapter 9. Anne Storch and Nico Nassenstein: Divisions and Schisms in the Party Space

Chapter 10. Marcus L. Stephenson & Shaun Goldfinch: Post-Brexit Tourism and the Commonwealth Reimagined

Chapter 11. Maria Amoamo: Brexit and the UK Overseas Territories: Tourism and the Reconstitution of Core-Periphery Identity

Chapter 12. Victoria Hooton: Associate EU Citizenship: a Panacea for Loss of Fundamental Rrights, Mobility and European Identity Post-Brexit?

Chapter 13. Reza Masoudi: Brexit and Post-Globalisation Era: Walking into Unknown Geography

Coda 2020: Hazel Andrews: COVID-19 Masks but Fails to Flatten Brexit

Index

How do you square ‘Take back control’ with the freedom of holidays? Andrews answers this question and raises others in this innovative collection. The contributors explore an imaginative range of neglected and unexpected dimensions of Brexit: its spiritual dimensions, its connections with hospitality, the economies of British tourist destinations, as well as its effect on tourist images, and what exactly the role of the royal family is in all this.