Tourism in Global Society

There is a wealth of case study material on tourism from a variety of different disciplines, but few attempts to synthesise the broad themes into a coherent analytical framework. This book addresses this problem by analysing tourism in light of contemporary social theory. By focusing on tourism in terms of consumption, commodification, and the political and cultural economy, the relationships between tourism, globalisation, people and place are explored in an empirically grounded but theoretically informed analysis.>

List of contents

Theorising Tourism
Creating Tourist Spaces: from Modernity to Globalisation
Tourism Development and the Political Economy
Tourism Modernity and Consumption
Authenticity and Heritage
Whose Culture?
Whose Place? Tourism, People and Change
Place, Culture and Consumption
Selected Further Reading
Bibliography
Index.

About the author

Kevin Meethan

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Meethan
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.03.2001
• EAN: 9780333760574
• ISBN: 978-0-333-76057-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 224 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; Management, B, Business and Management, Tourism, Industries, Tourism Management, Management science