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Tourism [electronic resource] : an introduction / Adrian Franklin.

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Àrgued with a real verve, it makes a plea to rethink the role of tourism in modernity seeing it not as a fleeting and marginal element, but as something enduring, emblematic and constitutive of contemporary society. Tourism is seen as a key element of modern life, not an escape from it' - Mike...

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Online Access: Full Text (via SAGE)
Main Author: Franklin, Adrian
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2003.
Subjects:
Tourism.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1
  • Introduction; Part I: Questions and Scope; Chapter 2
  • What is tourism?; Chapter 3
  • The foundations and traces of modern tourism; Chapter 4
  • Elaborations of tourism; Part II: Objects and Rituals; Chapter 5
  • Tourist objects, tourist rituals; Chapter 6
  • Objects and rituals of seaside; Chapter 7
  • Objects and rituals of heritage; Part III: The Embodied Tourist; Chapter 8
  • Tourisms of body and nature; Chapter 9
  • Sex and tourism; Chapter 10
  • Conclusion
  • A world of tourism; References; Index.

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