From Pilgrimage to Package Tour - Travel and Tourism in the Third World (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2005
First published:	2006
Authors:	David L. Gladstone
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	252
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-95062-6
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Service industries > Tourism industry Promotions
LSN:	0-415-95062-7
Barcode:	9780415950626

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