Tourist Gaze 3.0

A fully revised edition of a seminal text from a world class authority in tourism. Each chapter has been significantly updated to include fresh data, examples and critical theory and three entirely new chapters have been added. A modern classic.

List of contents

Preface
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to 3.0
Theories
Mass Tourism
Economies
Working under the Gaze
Changing Tourist Cultures
Places, Buildings and Design
Vision and Photography
Performances
Risks and Futures

About the author

His main research in recent years has been in advocating and developing a new paradigm for the social sciences, the new mobilities paradigmJonas Larsen is Professor in Tourism Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark. 

Summary

A fully revised edition of a seminal text from a world class authority in tourism. Each chapter has been significantly updated to include fresh data, examples and critical theory and three entirely new chapters have been added. A modern classic.

Product details

• Authors: Jonas Larsen, Jonas Urry Larsen, Jonas/ Urry Larsen, Larsen Jonas, JOHN Urry, John Larsen Urry, Professor John Urry
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.08.2011
• EAN: 9781849203760
• ISBN: 978-1-84920-376-0
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society; Published in Association with; Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society; Published in Association with
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Holidays (non-religious), Sociology: sport & leisure, Sociology: sport and leisure, Tourism industry, Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries