Tourism (eBook)

An Introduction

Adrian Franklin (Autor)

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2003
312 Seiten
Sage Publications (Verlag)
978-1-84860-525-1 (ISBN)

Infos

`Argued with a real verve, it makes a plea to rethink the role of tourism in modernity seeing it not as a fleeting and marginal element, but as something enduring, emblematic and constitutive of contemporary society. Tourism is seen as a key element of modern life, not an escape from it' - Mike Crang, Department of Geography, University of Durham Tourism is a rapidly growing area of student enrolment. Lecturers and students who have waited patiently for an up-to-date, lucid and indispensable teaching and research text, need wait no more. This book is a matchless guide to understanding the theory, practice, development and effects of tourism. Tourism: An Introduction: - equips students with a critical perspective of the central processes of tourism and the relationship between tourism and culture- places tourism at the heart of modern life rather than as a peripheral feature added on after work- illuminates the relationship between tourism and nation formation, citizenship, consumerism and globalization- reveals the ritual, performative and embodied dimensions of tourist experienceThis book offers readers a major synthesis of modern thought on tourism. It breaks the mould of approaching tourism as a self-contained, compartment of contemporary life and treats it as a major and exciting cultural phenomenon. This is a landmark work in the study of tourism.Adrian Franklin is the editor of the acclaimed journal Tourist Studies (SAGE Publications).

Produkt-Details

• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-84860-525-0 / 1848605250
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84860-525-1 / 9781848605251