Format:
Online-Ressource (245 p)
ISBN:
9780415950626
Content:
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 majo
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; FROM PILGRIMAGE TO PACKAGE TOUR; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 An Overview of Tourism in the 2000s; 2 Conceptualizing Travel and Tourism in Third World Countries; 3 The International Formal Sector: Megaresorts and National Tourism Planning in Mexico; 4 The International Informal Sector: Drifter Tourists in India and Mexico; 5 The Domestic Formal Sector: New Holidays for the New Middle Classes; 6 The Domestic Informal Sector: Migrants, Pilgrims, and Other Poor Travelers
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7 An Alternative to the Alternative? Informality and Sustainable Tourism in the Third WorldNotes; List of Acronyms; References; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781136078668
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415950626
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe From Pilgrimage to Package Tour : Travel and Tourism in the Third World
Language:
English
Keywords:
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