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9780803975132: International Tourism Identity and Change
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ISBN 10 : 0803975139 ISBN 13 : 9780803975132
Editeur : Sage Publications, 2009

Synopsis

Tourism is becoming an increasingly prominent feature of contemporary life. More of us travel for pleasure than ever before, yet the social scientific literature on tourism is relatively scant. This book provides an original contribution to the field of tourist studies.

The contributors to International Tourism reconceptualize the local and the global, avoiding such crude oppositions as centre v periphery, modern v traditional, macro v micro and North v South. Instead, they demonstrate that the local cannot be understood without the global, and that the global can never be isolated from the regional setting within which it operates.

Providing new insights into theories of touristic practice, this volume place

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À propos de l'auteur

In addition to undergraduate teaching in a wide variety of areas of the discipline, I became an internationally recognised specialist inn the study of the former Yugoslavia. I served as an advisor to Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons, and as an expert witness to the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague

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International Tourism reconceptualizes the local and the global, avoiding such crude oppositions as centre v periphery, modern v traditional and North v South, demonstrating that the local cannot be understood without the global, and that the global can never be isolated from the regional setting within which it operates.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Sage Publications
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803975139
ISBN 13 
9780803975132
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
Éditeur
Lanfant Marie-Francoise, Allcock John B., Bruner Edward M.
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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