{"product_id":"counter-tourism-handbook","title":"Counter Tourism Handbook","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor anyone who''s ever been a tourist, Counter-Tourism is an invitation to completely transform our experience of the heritage-tourism industry and its many sites (castles, National Trust properties, etc.). It provides a set of powerful lenses, designed to bend a whole world of conventional tourism into a spiral of new perspectives and experiences. Beneath those simple sounding stories in the Visitor Guide and behind the locked gates marked PRIVATE in heritage sites, there lies a multitude of inconvenient stories, hilarities, wonders, absurdities, extremes and entertaining outrages. When Counter-Tourism opens the doors, tourism becomes a funny, shocking, revealing, subversive and life-changing experience rather than a deferential procession through the unrevealing stately homes of Heritage plc. Counter-Tourism upsets the sanitising efforts of the heritage industry. Counter-tourism is also a journey of mini-pilgrimages, challenges and pleasures. It celebrates the multiplicities of meanings in every heritage venue and upsets all the heritage industry''s attempts at meaning-control and homogenisation. With hundreds more tactics and images, philosophical diversions and asides, the Handbook is for anyone who wants to explore the ideas of counter-tourism in more depth. Part 2 of the Handbook has ideas on how to extend the tactics described in Part 1 into interventions that can be planned and performed in heritage sites. And Part 3 goes on to suggest open ''infiltrations'' that can be used by artists, performers, radical tourists and even heritage site managers themselves to reinvent their own sites. Alongside this there''s a photo-essay on using the tactics, and a full bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57388151832958,"sku":"NW9781908009869","price":23.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781908009869.jpg?v=1778682347","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/counter-tourism-handbook","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}