Gladstone From Pilgrimage to Package Tour

Travel and Tourism in the Third World
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-07866-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 252 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gladstone, David L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Reise & Urlaub: Führer, Landkarten, Pläne

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.