Staging Tourism: Leisure and Consumption in Florida's Early Twentieth-Century Resorts
Author(s): Jason B Wenzel
Year: 2018
Summary
This project investigates the ways in which tourism destinations, namely resorts and hotels, structure the leisure experiences of their guests. Through an exploration of aspects of consumer patterns within tourism contexts, I integrate documentary and archival materials with archaeological data recovered from dense trash deposits excavated from two early-twentieth century resorts in Florida: the Fort George Club at Kingsley Plantation and the Oakland Hotel in west Orange County. The findings reveal how these tourism hosts acquired, furnished, and subsequently disposed of market and wild resources in a staging process that was shaped in accordance with environmental, market, and various social factors.
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Staging Tourism: Leisure and Consumption in Florida's Early Twentieth-Century Resorts. Jason B Wenzel. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441639)
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Keywords
General
Consumption
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Staging
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Tourism
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Early to Mid Twentieth Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 1036