The tour guide: walking and talking New York

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Everyone wants to visit New York at least once. The Big Apple is a global tourist destination with a dizzying array of attractions throughout the five boroughs. This title provides long history of tour-giving across the globe as well as the ups and downs of New York's tour guide industry in the wake of 9/11.

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Title Statements

Full title :The tour guide : walking and talking New York / Jonathan R. Wynn.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Chicago Press
Place of Publication:Chicago
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 226 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780226919058, 0226919056, 9780226919065, 0226919064
oclc:ocn666235049
LC Classification:F128.3
Dewey Decimal:917.47/10444

City murals -- Characters in the crowds, offering New York "like a native" -- The work of walking -- The walking guide, the city, and this book -- The guiding world -- From the Colossus of Rhodes to the Statue of Liberty -- The rise of New York guiding -- "There are many guides, and only one test" -- Tensions -- An untidy career -- After the rush -- "Deciding to make a go of it": getting into guiding -- Working as a guide -- Harmonizing work, and other rationales -- Beyond the sidewalk -- The guide-centered working ecology -- Guiding relationships -- Connecting with other guides -- Wrangling, promoting, connecting: working with organizations -- " ... but they also use our name to market themselves" -- Shticks of the trade -- "We change our environment" -- Routemaking -- Storytelling tricks -- "Walking is about your senses ... it's about experiencing" -- Entertaining identities -- Working with an audience -- Interacting with common tourist types -- Negotiating edutainment -- "They expect you as the product as well" -- Situational identities and symbolic armor -- Re-keying the city -- Neighborhood narratives and the collective urban culture -- "I don't own the neighborhood ..." -- A…

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Culture and tourism Culture and tourism -- New York (State) Ethnotourisme -- New York (État) Guides touristiques (Personnes) -- New … New York (N.Y.) -- Description and trav… New York (N.Y.) -- Descriptions et voya… New York (State) -- New York Tour guides (Persons) Tour guides (Persons) -- New York (Stat… Tourism -- Social aspects Tourism -- Social aspects -- New York (… travel