Tourists and tourism
Subtitle: a reader
By: Sharon Bohn Gmelch.
Publisher: Waveland Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Long Grove, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
Subjects: Tourism.; Tourists.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: One: Tourism and the tourist experience; title: Why tourism matters -- Sharon Bohn Gmelch; title: Secular ritual: A general theory of tourism -- Nelson H.H. Graburm; title: The global beach -- Orvar Löfgren; title: Sightseeing and social structure: The moral integration of modernity -- Dean MacCannell; title: Tourism and terrorism: An intimate equivalence -- Peter Phipps; title: Narrating the tourist experience -- Orvar Löfgren -- Two: Marketing culture and identity; title: Rereading the language of Japanese tourism -- Brian Moeran; title: The Maasai and the Lion King: Authenticity, nationalism and globalization in African tourism -- Edward M. Bruner; title: Culture by the pound: An anthropological perspective on tourism as cultural commoditization -- Davydd J. Greenwood; title: Whose New Orleans? Music's place in the packaging of New Orleans for tourism -- Connie Zeanah Atkinson; title: In a sense abroad: Theme parks and simulated tourism -- Lawrence Mintz -- Three: When tourists and locals meet; title: Tourism and anthropology in a postmodern world -- Fredderick Errington and Deborah Gewertz; title: Tourism in the Balinese borderzone -- Edward M. Bruner; title: Power dynamics in tourism: A Foucauldian approach -- So-Min Cheong and Marc L. Miller; title: Coping with mass cultural tourism: Structure and strategies -- Jeremy Boissevian; title: Tourism and its discontents: Suri-tourist encounters in Ethiopia -- Jon G. Abbink; title: "Let 'em loose": Pueblo Indian management of tourism -- Jill D. Sweet; title: When sex tourists and sex workers meet: Encounters within Sosúa, the Dominican Republic -- Denise Brennan; title: Romance tourism: Gender, race, and power in Jamaica -- Debroah Pruitt and Suzanne LaFont -- Four: The impact and implications of tourism; title: Sailing into the sunset: The cruise-ship industry -- Polly pattullo; title: The role of the elite in the development of tourism / M. Estellie Smith --; title: Sherpa culture and the tourist torrent -- James F. Fisher; title: Backpacking: Diversity and change -- Erik Cohen; title: Giving a grade to Costa Rica's green tourism -- Martha Honey; title: Lest go Europe: What student tourists really learn -- George Gmelch; title: Tourism, Europe, and identity -- John Urry; title: Rethinking tourism -- Debroah McLaren.