Consuming and erasing Portugal in the Lonely Planet guide to East Timor

Callahan, David

doi:10.1080/13688790.2011.542117

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“…The Thorn Tree Forum is divided geographically into twentytwo different threads (Paris 2010a), allowing anyone with an Internet connection to freely ask and respond to travel questions about every region in the world. LP also maintains its own You Tube Channel, a magazine, iPhone apps and a retail store at Sydney's airport (Callahan 2011 ), and is now wholly owned by the BBC (Sweeney 2011). LP thus encapsulates Bawden's (2010: 53) concept of a system, in which 'each component part of a system (guidebooks, Thorn Tree Forum, the magazine, etc) is also a ''lower order" (sub )system itself, and each system is, in tum, a subsystem of a "higher order" (supra )system' (the BBQ.…”

Section: Lonely Planet Guidebooks and Backpackersmentioning

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Backpacking in the Internet Age: Contextualizing the Use of Lonely Planet Guidebooks

Iaquinto¹

2012

Tourism Recreation Research

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LUCCA IAQUINTO~bs~ract: The aim of this paper is to explore how influential Lonely Planet (LP) guidebooks are to backpackers. Fmdings revealed LP to be of moderate influence, acting in a supplementary role to word of mouth information. The most ~portant. information source was word of mouth information amongst backpackers, followed by word of mouth information from locals, LP guidebooks and the Internet. Due to the difficulties of isolating LP guidebook use from these other information sources, systems thinking was applied in which these four most influential sources of information were conceptualized as subsystems which combined to comprise a larger backpacker information system. LP ':as then used as the starting point for a wider exploration of information usage amongst backpackers, incorporating the ~fluence of the ~nter~et and word. of mouth information. Recent studies reveal that Internet usage amongst ~ounsts has substantially mcreased durmg the past few years, demonstrating the speed with which the guidebook mdustry and backpacking is changing.

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Section: Lonely Planet Guidebooks and Backpackersmentioning

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Backpacking in the Internet Age: Contextualizing the Use of Lonely Planet Guidebooks

Iaquinto¹

2012

Tourism Recreation Research

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“…Bhattacharyya's 1997 study on guides to India is a case in point (see also, Buzinde 2010;Callahan 2011). Debbie Lisle's examination of humanitarian rhetoric in Lonely Planet guidebooks presents a sophisticated reiteration of Barthes' critique.…”

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In the company of a guide: guidebooks to Indigenous Australia

Clarke

2021

Studies in Travel Writing

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This paper is examines travel guides to Indigenous Australia, focussing on predominantly Aboriginal-authored texts. Acknowledging the body of work that has critiqued travel guides as mediators of oppressive cultural discourses, I am as much concerned with the risks inherent in these texts, as I am interested in their potential as sites of authorship and reading that enable anti-colonial ambitions. Two questions animate my discussion. First: to what extent are Aboriginal guidebooks consistent with conventional understandings of reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians? And second, how do these texts influence tourist activity in ways that respect Aboriginal sovereignty?

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“…Being a different kind of guidebook would be a welcome development in the quest for alternative conceptions of tourism as travel guidebooks are not neutral tools in the arsenal of the tourist. They mediate, in complex ways, between the tourist and his or her destination and this mediation tends to both reflect and strengthen dominant perceptions of host societies at the expense of marginalized, often local perspectives (Buzinde, 2010; Callahan, 2011) [3].…”

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A new kind of travel guide or more of the same? Wikivoyage and Cambodia

Luyt

2020

OIR

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PurposeGiven Wikipedia’s size and importance to the world’s information infrastructure, it can be forgotten that there exists under the same Wikimedia Foundation umbrella, a number of other volunteer wikis producing information on a variety of topics and subjects. Little research has been conducted on these offshoots. In this article I examine one of the earliest of these efforts, Wikivoyage, a free wiki-based travel guidebook.Design/methodology/approachI examine the content of Wikivoyage’s articles on the temples of Angkor, Siem Reap (the tourist gateway to the temples), the introductory page for the country of Cambodia as a whole and a sample of regional Cambodian entries. Textual and discourse analysis is the foundation of this work.FindingsThe findings suggest that although Wikivoyage is not currently an exemplar of alternative tourism discourses, it certainly has potential. But that potential can only be realized if those interested in contributing to the site alternative perspectives and discourses take up the task in a sensitive manner and in accordance with the developing editing culture.Originality/valueWhile conceding that Wikivoyage is currently unlikely to monopolize the guidebook market anytime soon, it is still important to study this social phenomenon both for its own intrinsic interest and to assess its potential for a more enlightened and transformative tourism.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/OIR-03-2020-0104

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Consuming and erasing Portugal in the Lonely Planet guide to East Timor

Cited by 8 publications

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Backpacking in the Internet Age: Contextualizing the Use of Lonely Planet Guidebooks

Backpacking in the Internet Age: Contextualizing the Use of Lonely Planet Guidebooks

In the company of a guide: guidebooks to Indigenous Australia

A new kind of travel guide or more of the same? Wikivoyage and Cambodia

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