Contributions

  • Lanfant, Marie-Françoise. - Contributor
  • Allcock, John B. - Contributor
  • Bruner, Edward M. - Contributor
  • International Sociological Association. - Contributor

Publication

1995 - Sage Publications, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

61,500 words, Guess

Page Count

246 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100803975120
  • ISBN-100803975139
  • ISBN-139780803975125
  • ISBN-139780803975132
  • Goodreads798357
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  • LibraryThing1647129
  • Library of Congress Control Number95069619
  • Open LibraryOL819069M

Classifications

  • LCCG154.9 .I565 1995

Description

This book broadens the discussion and challenges the traditional paradigm which presents tourism as an outside force - independant of any cultural or symbolic system - making an impact on an indigenous society. 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. In addition, it offers a sophisticated contribution to the debate on identity and otherness, touching upon the fundamental issues of 'us' and 'them', collectivity and difference.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Sage studies in international sociology ;
  • 47

Other Editions

  • International tourism: identity and changeSage Publications1995-01-01

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