Summary
It is hard to imagine urban tourism today without immigrants. Immigrants often provide the cheap labour or the entrepreneurial drive for the urban tourism industry. Moreover, their real or imagined cultural expressions are increasingly discernible amongst the ‘objects’ of urban tourism. More and more travellers, leisure seekers and business investors in gateway cities are indulging in ethnocultural events and festivals and are gravitating to centres of immigrant ethnic commerce. The urban tourist economy is thus becoming one of the interfaces between immigrants from all strata of society and the wider economy. 
Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City explores the manifestations of ethnic diversity that have been commodified by immigrants in gateway cities, and it asks how these expressions of culture can be transformed into vehicles for further developing the urban tourism economy. The primary focus is on the role of immigrant entrepreneurs and workers in the emerging urban tourism industry and on their interactions with other players in that industry. The relative roles of public, private and civil society actors are important points of attention. By addressing these issues from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective, a more thorough understanding of the structural dynamics of immigrants’ commercial manifestations of ethnic diversity is sought. The book further examines how such activities serve to integrate immigrants into the knowledge economy and how they impact upon urban socioeconomic development as a whole. 
Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City clearly explores the frontiers of knowledge on the interrelationship between tourism, migration, ethnic diversity and place. It investigates the new theoretical insights and challenges for empirical research using case studies drawn from several advanced economies in Europe, North America and Australia

Contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface

1 Tourism, Migration, and Place Advantage in the Global Cultural Economy
C. Michael Hall and Jan Rath

Part 1 Immigrant entrepreneurs

2 Making the new economy: Immigrant entrepreneurs and emerging transnational networks of international education and tourism in Seoul and Vancouver
Min-Jung Kwak and Daniel Hiebert

3 Urban boosterism, tourism and ethnic minority enterprise in Birmingham
Trevor Jones and Monder Ram

4 Ethnic precincts as contradictory tourist spaces
Jock Collins

Part 2 Immigrant workers

5 Caterers of the consumed metropolis: Ethnicized tourism and entertainment labourscapes in Istanbul
Volkan Aytar

6 Immigrants, tourists and the metropolitan landscape: Producing the metropolis of consumption in Orlando, Florida
Hugh Bartling

Part 3 Ethnic diversity in urban place promotion

7 Ethnic heritage tourism and global–local connections in New Orleans
Kevin Fox Gotham

8 Tourism and New York’s ethnic diversity: An underutilized resource?
Susan S. Fainstein and John C. Powers

9 Selling Miami: Tourism promotion and immigrant neighbourhoods in the Capital of Latin America
Gastón Alonso

10 Tourists ’R Us: Immigrants, ethnic tourism and the marketing of metropolitan Boston
Marilyn Halter

11 Conclusion
Jan Rath

On the authors
References
Index 

Overview of my publications
Racism
Islam/Muslims
General issues
Immigrant education
Miscellaneous issues
Migration/ethnic studies
Immigrant entrepreneurship
Immigrant political participation

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