International Tourism: Identity And Change

Description:
'This book is one of several indications that the sociology of tourism is on the move...these articles raise relevant important themes in the study of tourism...The contributors to this very readable book provide valuable insights, many of which have been derived from empirical research, that should interest anyone involved in the study of international tourism. And by moving us away from polarised positions over the social impact of tourism toward more complex but also more considered perspectives they have also helped alter the agenda for future research' - David Harrison, University of Sussex Tourism is becoming an increasingly prominent feature of contemporary life. More of us travel for pleasure than ever before, yet the social scientific literature on tourism is relatively scant. This book provides an original contribution to the field of tourist studies. The contributors to International Tourism reconceptualize the local and the global, avoiding such crude oppositions as centre v periphery, modern v traditional, macro v micro and North v South.Instead, they demonstrate that the local cannot be understood without the global, and that the global can never be isolated from the regional setting within which it operates. Providing new insights into theories of touristic practice, this volume places tourism within the same framework as other transnational global studies.

Review:
'This book is one of several indications that the sociology of tourism is on the move... these articles raise relevant important themes in the study of tourism... The contributors to this very readable book provide valuable insights, many of which have been derived from empirical research, that should interest anyone involved in the study of international tourism. And by moving us away from polarised positions over the social impact of tourism toward more complex but also more considered perspectives they have also helped alter the agenda for future research' - David Harrison, University of Sussex

Table of Contents:
Introduction - Marie-Francoise Lanfant International Tourism, Internationalization and the Challenge to Identity - Marie-Francoise Lanfant Cultural Heritage and Tourist Capital - Michel Picard Cultural Tourism in Bali Textiles, Memory and the Souvenir Industry in the Andes - Anath Ariel de Vidas Frontier Minorities, Tourism and the State in Indian Himalaya and Northern Thailand - Jean Michaud International Tourism and the Appropriation of History in the Balkans - John B Allcock Industrial Heritage in the Tourism Process in France - Claude-Marie Bazin Tourism and Tradition - Wendy Williams and Elly Maria Papamichael Local Control versus Outside Interests in Greece The Jewish Pilgrim and the Purchase of a Souvenir in Israel - Shelley Shenhav-Keller International Tourism and Utopia - Danielle Rozenberg The Balearic Islands Life as a Tourist Object in Australia - Meaghan Morris Sex Tourism and Traditional Australian Male Identity - Suzy Kruhse-MountBurton The Anthropologist as Tourist - Malcolm Crick An Identity in Question The Ethnographer/Tourist in Indonesia - Edward M Bruner