Constructing Cultural Tourism - John Ruskin and the Tourist Gaze (Paperback)

This book is an interdisciplinary collaboration between a literary critic and cultural historian, which examines and recovers a radical and still urgent challenge to the industrialisation of cultural tourism from the work of John Ruskin. Ruskin exerted a formative influence on the definition and development of cultural tourism which was probably as significant as that, for example, of his contemporary Thomas Cook. The book assesses Ruskin's overall influence on the development of national and international tourism in the context of pre-existing expectations about tourism flows and cultural capital and alongside parallel and intersecting trends of the time; examines Ruskin's contribution to the tourist agenda at all social levels; and discusses Ruskin's significance for current debates in tourism studies, especially questions of the place of the 'canon' of traditional European cultural tourism in a post-modern tourist setting, and the various incarnations of 'heritage tourism'.

General

Imprint:	Channel View Publications
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Tourism and Cultural Change
Release date:	November 2010
First published:	October 2010
Authors:	Keith Hanley • John K Walton
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-84541-154-1
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Service industries > Tourism industry
LSN:	1-84541-154-4
Barcode:	9781845411541

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