Explores the linkages between tourism and festivals and the various ways in which each mobilises the other to make social realities meaningful. Drawing upon a series of international cases, this book examines the festivals as ways of responding to various forms of crisis

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- The Contributors -- Chapter 1. Remaking Worlds: Festivals, Tourism and Change / Picard, David / Robinson, Mike -- Chapter 2. La Cavalcata Sarda: Performing Identities in a Contemporary Sardinian Festival / Azara, Iride / Crouch, David -- Chapter 3....