The tourist as a metaphor of the social world
This text contains a selection of papers from the Research Committee on International Tourism. It provides a sociological and anthropological critique of existing tourism theory as well as some directions for its future development and research.
| Other Authors: | Dann, Graham., EBSCOhost. |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Wallingforn, Oxon ; New York :
CABI Pub.,
2002.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (viii, 347 pages) |
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| Summary: |
This text contains a selection of papers from the Research Committee on International Tourism. It provides a sociological and anthropological critique of existing tourism theory as well as some directions for its future development and research. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. The Tourist as a Metaphor of the Social World / Graham M.S. Dann -- The Ethnographic Tourist / Nelson H.H. Graburn -- The Discursive Tourist / Kevin Moore -- The Tourist Experience and Everyday Life / Scott McCabe -- The Home and the World: (Post)touristic Spaces of (In)authenticity? / Tazim Jamal and Steve Hill -- Trusting Tourists: an Investigation into Tourism, Trust and Social Order / Lesley Kuhn -- The Tourist as a Social Fact / David Picard -- Tourism as Metempsychosis and Metensomatosis: the Personae of Eternal Recurrence / A.V. Seaton -- Tourism: Enacting Modern Myths / Christoph Hennig -- A Love Affair with Elsewhere: Love as a Metaphor and Paradigm for Tourist Longing / Jaap Lengkeek -- Leading the Tourist by the Nose / Graham M.S. Dann and Jens Kristian Steen Jacobsen -- Re-centering the Self in Volunteer Tourism / Stephen Wearing -- Glastonbury: a Tourist Town for All Seasons / Justine Digance and Carole Cusack -- The Tourist as Peak Consumer / Ning Wang -- The Cinematic Tourist: Perception and Subjectivity / Bronwyn Morkham and Russell Staiff -- The Cybertourist / Bruce Prideaux. This text contains a selection of papers from the Research Committee on International Tourism. It provides a sociological and anthropological critique of existing tourism theory as well as some directions for its future development and research. Colorado Mountain College - E-book Collection / Ebsco. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (viii, 347 pages) |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
0851997619 9780851997612 |