International Tourism Identity and Change: 48 (SAGE Studies in International Sociology) - Softcover

Marie-Francoise Lanfant; John Allcock; Edward Bruner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803975139 ISBN 13: 9780803975132

Publisher: Sage Publications, 2009

Synopsis

`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.

About this title

About the Author:

In addition to undergraduate teaching in a wide variety of areas of the discipline, I became an internationally recognised specialist inn the study of the former Yugoslavia. I served as an advisor to Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons, and as an expert witness to the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague

About this edition

• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0803975139
• ISBN 13: 9780803975132
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Lanfant Marie- Francoise