Description
Product ID: | 9780520280007 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | The Tourist |
Subtitle: | A New Theory of the Leisure Class |
Authors: | Author: Dean MacCannell |
Page Count: | 280 |
Subjects: | Popular culture, Popular culture, Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries, Tourism industry |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Brings social scientific understandings to bear on tourism in the postindustrial age, during which the middle class has acquired leisure time for international travel. This title examines notions of authenticity, high and low culture, and the construction of social reality around tourism. |
Imprint Name: | University of California Press |
Publisher Name: | University of California Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2013-08-31 |