Mega Tourist Metropolises: Las Vegas, Dubai and Macau

by Heiko Schmid, Mark Gottiener, Tim Simpson

The 'mega' tourist spaces of Las Vegas and recently Dubai and Macau are significant examples of new forms of urban landscape created by global capitalism that attracts huge sums of investment and employ spectacle, theming and consumer experience to extract massive profits from tourism. These regions are significant as they constitute a new way of making money from a spatial location.

Mega Tourist Metropolises is the first book to thoroughly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041555361X
• ISBN13: 9780415553612
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 300 Pages