The Sociology Of Tourism

Author : Yiorgos Apostolopoulos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113563579X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sociology of Tourism written by Yiorgos Apostolopoulos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid expansion of the tourism industry has provided many economic benefits and affected every facet of contemporary societies including employment, government revenue and cultural manifestations. However, tourism can also be considered a problematic phenomenon, promoting dependency, underdevelopment and adverse sociocultural effects, especially for developing countries. This pioneering work provides a comprehensive review of these complex tourism issues from a sociological perspective. Various theoretical and empirical approaches are introduced and the following issues are discussed: * identifiable and stable forms of touristic behaviour and roles * social divisions within tourism * the interdependence of tourism and social institutions * the effects of transnational tourism and commodification on the ecosystem. Featuring international contributions from nine different countries, this book brings together the most noted theoretical and empirical studies and enriches them with diverse experiences and perspectives.

Author : Graham Dann
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1846639891
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociology of Tourism written by Graham Dann and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is abundant evidence of the quasi-total domination of the sociology and anthropology of tourism by academics from the English-speaking world. This title familiarises readers in the US, UK, Australia and the English speaking regions of Africa and Asia with such evolutionary thinking.

Author : Christopher P. Cooper
Publisher : Channel View Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781873150443
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classic Reviews in Tourism written by Christopher P. Cooper and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together some of the leading authors in tourism, this text provides state-of-the-art reviews of research in fields of tourism. The text also revisits classic reviews which first appeared in Progress in Tourism, Recreation and Hospitality Management series, over a decade before the publication of this title. Topics covered include gender, alternative tourism, urban tourism, heritage tourism and environmental auditing.

Author : Yiorgos Apostolopoulos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135635722
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sociology of Tourism written by Yiorgos Apostolopoulos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid expansion of the tourism industry has provided many economic benefits and affected every facet of contemporary societies including employment, government revenue and cultural manifestations. However, tourism can also be considered a problematic phenomenon, promoting dependency, underdevelopment and adverse sociocultural effects, especially for developing countries. This pioneering work provides a comprehensive review of these complex tourism issues from a sociological perspective. Various theoretical and empirical approaches are introduced and the following issues are discussed: * identifiable and stable forms of touristic behaviour and roles * social divisions within tourism * the interdependence of tourism and social institutions * the effects of transnational tourism and commodification on the ecosystem. Featuring international contributions from nine different countries, this book brings together the most noted theoretical and empirical studies and enriches them with diverse experiences and perspectives.

Author : John Urry
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446259927
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tourist Gaze 3.0 written by John Urry and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The original Tourist Gaze was a classic, marking out a new land to study and appreciate. This new edition extends into fresh areas with the same passion and insight of the object. Even more essential reading!" - Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor, Warwick University This new edition of a seminal text restructures, reworks and remakes the groundbreaking previous versions making this book even more relevant for tourism students, researchers and designers. ′The tourist gaze′ remains an agenda setting theory. Packed full of fascinating insights this major new edition intelligently broadens its theoretical and geographical scope to provide an account which responds to various critiques. All chapters have been significantly revised to include up-to-date empirical data, many new case studies and fresh concepts. Three new chapters have been added which explore: photography and digitization embodied performances risks and alternative futures This book is essential reading for all involved in contemporary tourism, leisure, cultural policy, design, economic regeneration, heritage and the arts.

Author : Philip L. Pearce
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483146677
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Psychology of Tourist Behaviour written by Philip L. Pearce and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Psychology of Tourist Behaviour is a seven-chapter book that describes tourists, tourism, and tourist psychology. The book particularly explores economic, geographical, anthropological, and sociological studies of tourism. Subsequent chapters look into the social role of tourist; an approach to tourist motivation; social contact between tourists and hosts; and environmental settings of tourist behavior. The book will be useful for advanced undergraduates, graduate students and relevant practitioners, and in some cases for a rather broader public in the field of social psychology.

Author : Dean MacCannell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520280008
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tourist written by Dean MacCannell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-08-31 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic analysis of travel and sightseeing, author Dean MacCannell brings social scientific understandings to bear on tourism in the postindustrial age, during which the middle class has acquired leisure time for international travel. In The Tourist—now with a new introduction framing it as part of a broader contemporary social and cultural analysis—the author examines notions of authenticity, high and low culture, and the construction of social reality around tourism.

Author : Richard Sharpley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351809547
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tourism, Tourists and Society written by Richard Sharpley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism, Tourists and Society provides a broad introduction to the inter-relationship between tourism and society, making complex sociological concepts and themes accessible to readers from a non-sociological academic background. It provides a thorough exploration of how society influences or shapes the behaviours, motivations, attitudes and consumption of tourists, as well as the tourism impacts on destination societies. The fifth edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect recent data, concepts and academic debates: • New content on: mobilities paradigm and the emotional dimension of tourist experiences. • New chapter: Tourism and the Digital Revolution, looking at the ways in which the Internet and mobile technology transform both tourist behaviour and the tourist experience. • New end-of-chapter further reading and discussion topics. Accessible yet critical in style, this book offers students an invaluable introduction to tourism, tourists and society.

Author : Ning Wang
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780080434469
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tourism and Modernity written by Ning Wang and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Establishes a line of enquiry into the relationship between tourism and modernity. This book contextualizes it in terms of relationship between Logos-modernity and Eros-modernity. It focuses on the conditions of modernity that lure tourists towards pleasure travel. It also looks at the relationship between modernity and motivations of tourists.

Author : Marie-Françoise Lanfant
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0857022822
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Tourism written by Marie-Françoise Lanfant and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1995-08-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `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.