From Pilgrimage to Package Tour
Travel and Tourism in the Third World
When people in First World countries think of tourists in the vast expanses of the Third World today, they typically think of pampered westerners, filling up the luxury hotels and imposing their Orientalist gazes on the teeming masses. As David Gladstone shows us in this fascinating and provocative book, such preconceptions are wrong. Coupling incisive and colorful ethnographic accounts of tourism in India and Mexico with sharp analysis, Gladstone demonstrates the amazing complexity of this industry, which now comprises close to ten percent of the world economy. As he also shows, the vast majority of tourists in the Third World are indigenous…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-136-07866-8
- EAN: 9781136078668
- Produktnummer: 20168683
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 252 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'471 KB
- Abbildungen: 41 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 36 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 10 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
David Gladstone is Assistant Professor of Urban and Public Affairs at the University of New Orleans. He also serves as the Director of their Ph.D. program in Urban Studies.
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