Tourism: The nature and structure of tourismStephen Williams This collection of key articles from the most influential journals and books in the field examines what social scientists mean by the term tourism, and what it means to be a tourist. Carefully selected and introduced by the editor, this material charts the sociological changes that have occurred in tourism, and the change from the upper-class grand tours of the late nineteenth-century to the mass tourism of the present day. The collection also assesses the economic impacts of tourism on local economies, environmental considerations, and whether the growth of tourism is sustainable in a post-September 11th world. "Tourism: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences" is an accessible and comprehensive resource designed for academics and scholars researching in tourism, globalization, and human geography. |
Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
a mode of analysis | 18 |
the travel | 19 |
Sustaining the ego 301 | 21 |
NEIL LEIPER | 25 |
polarization | 40 |
Conceptual issues in the meaning of tourism | 45 |
The role of amenity resources in rural recreation | 47 |
Toward a sociology of international tourism | 174 |
The economic psychology of travel and tourism | 188 |
The indiscipline of tourism | 205 |
PART 2 | 219 |
Tourist attraction systems | 244 |
Interpretations of tourism as commodity | 264 |
PART 5 | 276 |
Geography marketing and the selling of places | 283 |
complementary | 58 |
Behavioral conceptualization of tourism and leisure | 70 |
a key sector of the new tourism | 83 |
PART 8 | 85 |
The anthropology of tourism | 91 |
Tourism development in deindustrializing centres of | 99 |
The economic organization of tourism | 113 |
global industry and cultural form | 130 |
towards a critical geography | 137 |
Cybertourism and the phantasmagoria of place | 153 |
Understanding holiday choice | 169 |
1 | 307 |
324 | |
Tourism as a sacred journey | 325 |
A framework of approaches to sustainable tourism | 327 |
25 | 332 |
Tourism and sacred landscapes | 339 |
45 | 347 |
The cultural construction of sustainable tourism | 352 |
363 | |
International tourism internationalization and | 366 |
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