Tourism and Souvenirs ― Glocal Perspectives from the Margins

This book situates souvenirs as tangible and intangible expressions and triggers of tourism experience that are ?glocally? developed on the margins, at tourism peripheries. The authors gain new insights with this critique of souvenirs that situates souvenirs of place, people and experience as constructions of transnational lives, migration and global tourism.

Jenny Cave is a lecturer in Tourism and Hospitality Management at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Her background is in anthropology, museology, tourism and cultural attraction management in New Zealand and Canada. This shapes her research into the linkages between tourism, migration and poverty reduction in rural and island peripheries, cultural/heritage enterprise, and collaborative methods.
Lee Jolliffe is a Professor at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. With a background in museology she has research interests in the intersection of culture and tourism, especially in urban and rural settings, as well as museums and arts events in North Atlantic Islands, South East Asia and the Caribbean. Her edited volumes include Tea and Tourism (2007), Coffee Culture, Destinations and Attractions (2010) and Sugar Heritage and Tourism in Transition (2013).
Tom Baum is Programme Director, Hong Kong University SPACE programmes in Tourism and Hospitality Management at the University of Strathclyde. His research agenda includes: people and work in low skills service work, with a particular focus on the international hospitality and tourism sector as well as human resource development and skills planning and formation, education and training, at a macro (national) and company level.