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Key Concepts in Tourist Studies provides a focused, quick reference guide for students exploring the fast growing and diverse field of tourist studies.Chosen by experienced teachers and researchers each concept defines, explains and develops a key topic in tourism and will act as a springboard for further reading and debate. This is an essential resource for all students of tourism.
Tourist Gaze
Tourist Gaze
The tourist gaze refers to the idea that tourists’ ways of seeing places and people and the selection of those sights is directed and organised by the tourism industry.
In 1990, sociologist John Urry published a book entitled The Tourist Gaze which has subsequently become a highly influential text within the study of tourism. Urry took the concept of ‘the gaze’, which was developed by French theorists Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault in the 1960s, and applied it to the field of tourism. In his work, he emphasises the visual nature of tourism - the way in which tourists seek out and consume visual images and the means by which the tourism industry organises and directs this consumption. At a basic level, tourism's ...
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