When Travel Meets Tourism: Tracing Discourse in Tony Wheeler's Blog
This paper examines a guidebook publisher's travel blog in order to shed light on the tensions between discourses of travel and tourism. Tony Wheeler's Blog is written by the founder of Lonely Planet and is hosted on the company's website. I argue that the "blog" title impli...
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| description | This paper examines a guidebook publisher's travel blog in order to shed light on the tensions between discourses of travel and tourism. Tony Wheeler's Blog is written by the founder of Lonely Planet and is hosted on the company's website. I argue that the "blog" title implies that the text has certain intrinsic qualities, some of which are evident while others are not. I also argue that this text is an online travel narrative that draws on the discourses of travel, tourism, and blogging itself. Travel and tourism are often seen as conflicting, and the traveler-tourist dichotomy has found expression in various travel-related narratives. So Tony Wheeler's Blog becomes a site of negotiation between the discourses of travel and tourism, and in so doing takes on certain aspects of the blog while omitting or only imitating others. © 2012 Copyright National Communication Association. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-97542017-09-13T14:53:17Z When Travel Meets Tourism: Tracing Discourse in Tony Wheeler's Blog Azariah, Deepti This paper examines a guidebook publisher's travel blog in order to shed light on the tensions between discourses of travel and tourism. Tony Wheeler's Blog is written by the founder of Lonely Planet and is hosted on the company's website. I argue that the "blog" title implies that the text has certain intrinsic qualities, some of which are evident while others are not. I also argue that this text is an online travel narrative that draws on the discourses of travel, tourism, and blogging itself. Travel and tourism are often seen as conflicting, and the traveler-tourist dichotomy has found expression in various travel-related narratives. So Tony Wheeler's Blog becomes a site of negotiation between the discourses of travel and tourism, and in so doing takes on certain aspects of the blog while omitting or only imitating others. © 2012 Copyright National Communication Association. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/9754 10.1080/15295036.2011.574640 restricted |
| spellingShingle | Azariah, Deepti When Travel Meets Tourism: Tracing Discourse in Tony Wheeler's Blog |
| title | When Travel Meets Tourism: Tracing Discourse in Tony Wheeler's Blog |
| title_full | When Travel Meets Tourism: Tracing Discourse in Tony Wheeler's Blog |
| title_fullStr | When Travel Meets Tourism: Tracing Discourse in Tony Wheeler's Blog |
| title_full_unstemmed | When Travel Meets Tourism: Tracing Discourse in Tony Wheeler's Blog |
| title_short | When Travel Meets Tourism: Tracing Discourse in Tony Wheeler's Blog |
| title_sort | when travel meets tourism: tracing discourse in tony wheeler's blog |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/9754 |