TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dann,Graham
TI  - The tourist as a metaphor of the social world
SN  - 085199606X
AV  - G154.9 .T696 2002
U1  - 306.48 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York
PB  - CABI Pub
KW  - Tourism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Tourists
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy036/2002000682.html
ER  -