Abstract
This chapter explores notions of authenticity in terms of the photographs taken by tourists while on holiday. Some tourists photograph attributes of the hosts culture that they perceive as authentic, while ignoring, editing, or erasing aspects that conflict with their imagined views. Drawing upon methods of participant-informed photo-ethnography used in a study of US tourists holiday photographs of Ireland, tourists will be resituated in this chapter as editors in their own photographic reproductions of place. Moreover, by focusing attention to how they confer meaning on destinations and the people who live in them, through the embodied performance of photography, this chapter explores tourists notions of authenticity
| Original language | English (Ireland) |
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| Title of host publication | Authenticity Tourism: Materialities, Perceptions, Experiences |
| Publisher | Emerald Publishing Limited |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 1571-5043 |
| ISBN (Print) | 1571-5043 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Sep 2018 |
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- Ruane, S.T., Quinn, B., & Flanagan, S.
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