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The tourist gaze / John Urry.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : SAGE, 1120.Edition: 3rd edDescription: 1 v. : ill. ; .. cmISBN:
  • 1849203776 (pbk)
  • 9781849203777
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.4791 URR
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Standard Loan Moylish Library Main Collection 338.4791 URR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100403931

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"The original Tourist Gaze was a classic, marking out a new land to study and appreciate. This new edition extends into fresh areas with the same passion and insight of the object. Even more essential reading!"- Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor, Warwick UniversityThis new edition of a seminal text restructures, reworks and remakes the groundbreaking previous versions making this book even more relevant for tourism students, researchers and designers. ′The tourist gaze′ remains an agenda setting theory. Packed full of fascinating insights this major new edition intelligently broadens its theoretical and geographical scope to provide an account which responds to various critiques.

All chapters have been significantly revised to include up-to-date empirical data, many new case studies and fresh concepts. Three new chapters have been added which explore:

photography and digitization embodied performances risks and alternative futures

This book is essential reading for all involved in contemporary tourism, leisure, cultural policy, design, economic regeneration, heritage and the arts.

Previous ed.: 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • Preface to 3.0
  • Theories
  • Mass Tourism
  • Economies
  • Working under the Gaze
  • Changing Tourist Cultures
  • Places, Buildings and Design
  • Vision and Photography
  • Performances
  • Risks and Futures

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