Main Description

This book contains a selection of papers from the prestigious Research Committee on International Tourism presented at the World Congress of the International Sociological Association, Brisbane, Australia, July 2002. It provides a sociological and anthropological critique of existing tourism theory as well as some directions for its future development and research. While much of the present understanding of the tourist and tourism is grounded in metaphor (e.g. tourism as a sacred journey, tourism as play, the tourist as a child, etc.) such analogies need to be linked to transformations in tourism generating and receiving societies. Hence the focus on the tourist and everyday life, socio-psychological dimensions of the tourist experience, the tourist and conflicting expectations, and the tourist in a changing world.

Readership

Researchers in the sociology and anthropology of tourism and leisure

Main Contents

• The Tourist as a Metaphor of the Social World, G M S Dann
• The Ethnographic Tourist, N Graburn, University of California, USA
• The Discursive Tourist, K Moore, Lincoln University, New Zealand
• The Tourist Experience and Everyday Life, S McCabe, University of Derby, UK
• The Home and the World: (Post) Touristic Spaces and Inauthenticy? T Jamal and S Hill, Texas A&M University, USA
• Trusting Tourists: Tourism, Trust and the Social Order, L Kuhn, University of Western Sydney, Australia
• The Tourist as a Social Fact, D Picard, Universite de la Reunion, France
• Tourism as Metempsychosis and Metensomatosis: The Personae of Eternal Recurrence, A V Seaton, University of Luton, UK
• Tourism: Enacting Modern Myths, C Hennig, Via dei Bibiena, Italy
• A Love Affair with Elsewhere: Love as a Metaphor and Paradigm for Tourist Longing, J Lengkeek, Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands
• Leading the Tourist by the Nose, G M S Dann and J K Steen Jacobsen, Institute of Transport Economics, Norway
• Recentring the Self in Volunteer Tourism, S Wearing, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
• Glastonbury: A Tourist Town for all Seasons, J Digance, Griffith University, Australia and C Cusack, University of Sydney, Australia
• The Tourist as Peak Consumer, N Wang, University of Guangzhou, PR China
• The Cinematic Tourist: Perception and Subjectivity, B Morkham, University of Melbourne, Australia and R Staiff, University of Western Sydney, Australia
• The Cybertourist, B Prideaux, University of Queensland, Australia

• "The book will be of interest to researchers in sociology and anthropology looking at tourism, and for those attempting to cross over from the field of tourism studies into these disciplines."
  Jim Butcher, International Journal of Tourism Research, 6(1), Jan 2004

• "This book is an important documentation of the discourse in this field of enquiry."
  Tom Selanniemi, Annals of Tourism Research, 31(4)

• "This volume offers a rich source of theoretical work relating to the tourist experience. It should appeal to anyone concerned with critical approaches to understanding the everyday experiences of tourists."
  Chris Perkins, Service Industries Journal, 23(4), 2003

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