Tourism : an introduction / Adrian Franklin.

Tourism is a rapidly growing area of student enrolment. Lecturers and students who have waited patiently for an up-to-date, lucid and indispensable teaching and research text, need wait no more. This book is a matchless guide to understanding the theory, practice, development and effects of tourism.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Franklin, Adrian
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part One : Questions and Scope
  • What is tourism?
  • The foundations and traces of modern tourism
  • Elaborations of tourism
  • Part Two : Objects and Rituals
  • Tourist objects, tourist rituals
  • Objects and rituals of seaside
  • Objects and rituals of heritage
  • Part Three : The Embodied Tourist
  • Tourisms of body and nature
  • Sex and tourism
  • Conclusion : A world of tourism
  • References
  • Index.