Tourism and Australian beach cultures: revealing bodies

摘要

Tourism and Australian beach cultures: revealing bodies is a 'revealing read' - it is very much situated in cultural geography and provides an historical account on the emergence of Australian beach culture in the Illawarra area of New South Wales using an expose of the body at the beach to provide the story. The book takes us through the geographies of the Australian beach as a social and physical space that is used for a wide range of recreation and tourism activities. Its attractiveness for the recreationist and tourist stems from its qualities as a place and space of sun, sand and sex with the appropriate symbols of culture attached such as warmth, waves, relaxation, bikinis, boards, umbrellas and suntans and so the title of the book Revealing bodies is appropriate.