Hosts and guests : the anthropology of tourism / Valene L. Smith, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Valene L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Tourism—one of the world's largest industries—has long been appreciated for its economic benefits, but in this volume tourism receives a unique systematic scrutiny as a medium for cultural exchange. Modern developments in technology and industry, together with masterful advertising, have created temporarily leisured people with the desire and the means to travel. They often in turn effect profound cultural change in the places they visit, and the contributors to this work all attend to the impact these "guests" have on their "hosts."In contrast to the dramatic economic transformations, the social repercussions of tourism are subtle and often recognized only by the indigenous peoples themselves and by the anthropologists who have studied them before and after the introduction of tourism. The case studies in Hosts and Guests examine the five types of tourism—historical, cultural, ethnic, environmental, and recreational—and their impact on diverse societies over a broad geographical range

Contents:

pt. I. Tourism and leisure : a theoretical overview

pt. II. Nascent tourism in non-Western societies

pt. III. Tourism in European resorts

pt. IV. Tourism in complex societies

pt. V. Towards a theory of tourism.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-330) and index.

ISBN:

9781283898980

1283898985

9780812208016

0812208013

9780585127279

0585127271

OCLC:

44956033