David L. Gladstone

From Pilgrimage to Package Tour (eBook, PDF)

Travel and Tourism in the Third World

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Produktbeschreibung

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 majority of tourists in the Third World are indigenous people with few resources-often making pilgrimages to religious shrines. From Pilgrimage to Package Tour is a fresh and entirely original account that stands tourism studies on its head and proves that this industry is far more complicated than it initially appears.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136078668
• Artikelnr.: 45135089

Autorenporträt

David Gladstone is Assistant Professor of Urban and Public Affairs at the University of New Orleans. He also serves as the Director of their Ph.D. program in Urban Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface The Varieties of Touristic Experience Chapter One An Overview of
Tourism in the 2000s Chapter Two Conceptualizing Travel and Tourism in
Third World Countries Chapter Three The International Formal Sector:
Mega-Resorts and National Tourism Planning in Mexico Chapter Four The
International Informal Sector: Drifter Tourists in India and Mexico Chapter
Five The Domestic Formal Sector: New Holidays for the New Middle Classes
Chapter Six The Domestic Informal Sector: Migrants, Pilgrims, and Other
Poor Travelers Chapter Seven An Alternative to the Alternative? Informality
and Sustainable Tourism in the Third World List of Acronyms Notes
References Index