Early post-war travel guides to the Philippines
Travel guidebooks are an important component of the world’s popular information infrastructure, which alone justifies their study. In this article I examine four early post-war travel guides to the Philippines in terms of how they depict the Philippines and its peoples, as well as their construction...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1700232023-08-22T01:55:57Z Early post-war travel guides to the Philippines Luyt, Brendan Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information Social sciences::Communication Philippines Travel Literature Travel guidebooks are an important component of the world’s popular information infrastructure, which alone justifies their study. In this article I examine four early post-war travel guides to the Philippines in terms of how they depict the Philippines and its peoples, as well as their construction of an imagined reader and the ties between that reader and the wider social context of their production, in this case neo-colonialism, the Cold War and the rise of a more independent kind of tourist in the 1970s. 2023-08-22T01:55:57Z 2023-08-22T01:55:57Z 2023 Journal Article Luyt, B. (2023). Early post-war travel guides to the Philippines. Journal of Tourism History, 15(1), 43-64. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1755182X.2023.2173312 1755-182X https://hdl.handle.net/10356/170023 10.1080/1755182X.2023.2173312 2-s2.0-85149039266 1 15 43 64 en Journal of Tourism History © 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. All rights reserved. |
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Travel guidebooks are an important component of the world’s popular information infrastructure, which alone justifies their study. In this article I examine four early post-war travel guides to the Philippines in terms of how they depict the Philippines and its peoples, as well as their construction of an imagined reader and the ties between that reader and the wider social context of their production, in this case neo-colonialism, the Cold War and the rise of a more independent kind of tourist in the 1970s. |
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