Table of Contents

1. Places to Play, Places in Play Part 1: Performing Paradise 2. Demobilizing and Remobilizing the Carribean Paradise 3. Islands in the Sun: Cyprus 4. Eco-Tourists on the Beach 5. Shifting the Beach: Surf, sand and bodies Part 2: Performances of Global Heritage 6. Little England's Global Conference Centre 7. Bodies, Spirits and Incas: Performing 8. On the Track of the Vikings 9. Art Exhibitions Travel the World 10. Reconstituting the Taj Mahal: Tourist flows and globalisation Part 3: Remaking Playful Places 11. The Paradox of a Tourist Centre: Hong Kong as a site of play and a place of fear 12. Barcelona's Games: The Olympics, urban design and global tourism 13. Tourists in the Concrete Desert 14. Favela Tours: Indistinct and mapless representations of the real in Rio de Janeiro Part 4: New Playful Places 15. Playing On-line and Between the Lines: Round-the-world websites as virtual places to play 16. 'Let's build a palm island!': Playfulness in complex times 17. Atomica World: The place of nuclear tourism 18. Death in Venice

About the Author

Sheller, Mimi; Urry, John