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`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 experience This 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).
Elaborations of Tourism
Elaborations of Tourism
Residents of the first world live in time, space does not matter for them, since spanning every distance is instantaneous.
‘If we can control the environment completely, location won't matter any more,’ argues Halperin. ‘Some people will, perhaps want the real thing in terms of travel. But I'm not sure I know why; once you can interface with someone as if you're having a conversation in the same room, or once you can explore a place as if you're there. What's the difference?’
‘Air travel has lost its glamour,’ observes Professor Ffowcs Williams of Cambridge. ‘There are few exotic places any more – cheap travel is ruining all that – and ...
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