The global theme park industry

This book sets out to achieve three basic aims. In the first place it deals with defining and explaining the development and characteristics of the theme park industry on a global level and, from this point of view, offers the elements necessary for the understanding of their nature and functioning as spaces for entertainment with specific meanings. It is, above all, an explanatory book, containing real data as to the characteristics, the growth and the effects of the theme park phenomenon. Thus, it is a book whose primary aim is to try to understand why, as Tuan (1998) stated, theme parks are seen by their visitors as places through which to temporarily 'escape' from the conditions and worries of their everyday lives. In the second place, this book takes an analytical approach to the role played by theme parks in the social construction of space.

Từ khóa: The global theme park industry, social construction of space, cultural trends, theme park, công nghiệp công viên, công viên toàn cầu