Official Tourism Websites : A Discourse Analysis Perspective

Frontmatter -- Dedications -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Identity and the World Wide Web: Methods of Analysis -- 3. Narrative of the Nation: Baltic Tourism Websites in the Post-Soviet Context -- 4. The Tourist as Pilgrim, the Pilgrim as Tourist: Santiago de Compostela -- 5. Rebirth of an American City: New Orleans, Louisiana -- 6. ‘100 Years. . . Steel Strong’: Forging an Identity for Gary, Indiana -- 7. The Tourist as Patriot: Sports and Nationalism -- 8. Balancing Promotion and Warning in the Construction of National Identity in Travel Guides: The Case of Myanmar/Burma -- 9. Constructing Self versus Other in Parodic Travel Guides -- 10. Conclusion: On Tourism, Identity and the World Wide Web -- References -- Index