The tourist as a metaphor of the social world / edited by Graham M.S. Dann.

Contributor(s):

Dann, Graham [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : CABI Pub, 2002Description: viii, 347 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

085199606X
9780851996066

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

306.48 21

LOC classification:

G154.9 .T696 2002

Online resources:

Table of contents

Summary: "This book contains a selection of papers from the prestigious Research Committee on International Tourism presented at the World Congress of the International Sociological Association, Brisbane, Australia, July 2002. It provides a sociological and anthropological critique of existing tourism theory as well as some directions for its future development and research. While much of the present understanding of the tourist and tourism is grounded in metaphor (e.g. tourism as a sacred journey, tourism as play, the tourist as a child, etc.) such analogies need to be linked to transformations in tourism generating and receiving societies. Hence the focus on the tourist and everyday life, socio-psychological dimensions of the tourist experience, the tourist and conflicting expectations, and the tourist in a changing world."--Publisher description.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book contains a selection of papers from the prestigious Research Committee on International Tourism presented at the World Congress of the International Sociological Association, Brisbane, Australia, July 2002. It provides a sociological and anthropological critique of existing tourism theory as well as some directions for its future development and research. While much of the present understanding of the tourist and tourism is grounded in metaphor (e.g. tourism as a sacred journey, tourism as play, the tourist as a child, etc.) such analogies need to be linked to transformations in tourism generating and receiving societies. Hence the focus on the tourist and everyday life, socio-psychological dimensions of the tourist experience, the tourist and conflicting expectations, and the tourist in a changing world."--Publisher description.

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