Tourists and tourism : a reader / Sharon Bohn Gmelch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gmelch, Sharon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism.

Tourists.

Physical Description:

xi, 478 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Long Grove, IL : Waveland Press, [2004]

Contents:

One: Tourism and the tourist experience Why tourism matters / Sharon Bohn Gmelch

Secular ritual: A general theory of tourism / Nelson H.H. Graburm

The global beach / Orvar Löfgren

Sightseeing and social structure: The moral integration of modernity / Dean MacCannell

Tourism and terrorism: An intimate equivalence / Peter Phipps

Narrating the tourist experience / Orvar Löfgren

Two: Marketing culture and identity Rereading the language of Japanese tourism / Brian Moeran

The Maasai and the Lion King: Authenticity, nationalism and globalization in African tourism / Edward M. Bruner

Culture by the pound: An anthropological perspective on tourism as cultural commoditization / Davydd J. Greenwood

Whose New Orleans? Music's place in the packaging of New Orleans for tourism / Connie Zeanah Atkinson

In a sense abroad: Theme parks and simulated tourism / Lawrence Mintz

Three: When tourists and locals meet Tourism and anthropology in a postmodern world / Fredderick Errington and Deborah Gewertz

Tourism in the Balinese borderzone / Edward M. Bruner

Power dynamics in tourism: A Foucauldian approach / So-Min Cheong and Marc L. Miller

Coping with mass cultural tourism: Structure and strategies / Jeremy Boissevian

Tourism and its discontents: Suri-tourist encounters in Ethiopia / Jon G. Abbink

"Let 'em loose": Pueblo Indian management of tourism / Jill D. Sweet

When sex tourists and sex workers meet: Encounters within Sosúa, the Dominican Republic / Denise Brennan

Romance tourism: Gender, race, and power in Jamaica / Debroah Pruitt and Suzanne LaFont

Four: The impact and implications of tourism Sailing into the sunset: The cruise-ship industry / Polly pattullo

The role of the elite in the development of tourism / M. Estellie Smith

Sherpa culture and the tourist torrent / James F. Fisher

Backpacking: Diversity and change / Erik Cohen

Giving a grade to Costa Rica's green tourism / Martha Honey

Lest go Europe: What student tourists really learn / George Gmelch

Tourism, Europe, and identity / John Urry

Rethinking tourism / Debroah McLaren.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1577663063

OCLC:

53926812