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This note highlights literature on tourism as an industry,
practice and focus of government attention.
It covers -
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supplements the discussion of the infotainment
economy and passport/travel regimes elsewhere on this
site.
orientations
Perspectives are offered in History of Tourism:
Thomas Cook & the Origins of Leisure Travel (London:
Routledge 1998) by Paul Smith, Travel Industry Economics:
A Guide for Financial Analysis (Cambridge: Cambridge
Uni Press 2001) by Harold Vogel, Making the World
Safe for Tourism (New Haven: Yale Uni Press 2001)
by Patricia Goldstone, Indigenous Tourism: The commodification
and Management of Culture (New York: Elsevier 2005)
edited by Chris Ryan & Michelle Aicken, Rupert Christiansen's
The Visitors: Culture Shock in Nineteenth-Century
Britain (London: Pimlico 2001), Tourism and Politics:
Global Frameworks and Local Realities (New York:
Elsevier 2007) edited By Peter Burns & Marina Novelli,
David Lowenthal's Possessed by the Past: Heritage
and the Spoils of History (New York:Free Press 1998),
Lynne Withey's Grand Tours and Cook's Tours: A History
of Leisure Travel, 1750-1915 (London: Aurum 1998),
and Battlefield Tourism: Pilgrimage & the Commemoration
of the Great War in Britain, Australia and Canada, 1919-1939
(Oxford: Berg 1998) by David Lloyd.
barriers
Literature on travel restrictions are highlighted in the
discussion of passport
and visa regimes.
autocracies
Kristin Semmens' Seeing Hitler's Germany: Tourism
in the Third Reich (New York: Palgrave 2005), Shelley
Baranowski's Strength through Joy: Consumerism and
Mass Tourism in the Third Reich (Cambridge: Cambridge
Uni Press 2004), D Medina Lasansky's The Renaissance
Perfected: Architecture, Spectacle, and Tourism in Fascist
Italy (University Park: Pennsylvania State Uni Press
2004), Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi's Fascist Spectacle:
The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's Italy (Berkeley:
Uni of California Press 2000) and Pal Nyiri's Scenic
Spots: Chinese Tourism, the State, and Cultural Authority
(Seattle: Uni of Washington Press 2006).
high and low culture
Debate about elite and popular taste and consumption features
in John Urry's The Tourist Gaze (London: Sage
1990) and Consuming Places (1995), Paul Fussell's
waspish Abroad: British Literary Traveling between
the Wars (Oxford: Oxford Uni Press 1980), Paul Hollander's
Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals
to the Soviet Union, China and Cuba 1928-1978 (New
York: Oxford Uni Press 1981), Sylvia Margulies' The
Pilgrimage to Russia: The Soviet Union and the Treatment
of Foreigners, 1924-1937 (Madison: Uni of Wisconsin
Press 1968), Susan Barton's Working-Class Organisations
and Popular Tourism, 1840-1970 (Manchester: Manchester
Uni Press 2005)
management
Points of entry include Tourism & Political Boundaries
(New York: Routledge 2001) by Dallen Timothy & Geoffrey
Wall,, Being Elsewhere: Tourism, Consumer Culture
& Identity in Modern Europe and North America
(Ann Arbor: Uni of Michigan Press 2001) edited by Shelley
Baranowski & Ellen Furlough, Routes: Travel and
Translation in the Late Twentieth Century (Cambridge:
Harvard Uni Press 1997) by James Clifford and Across
the Lines: Travel, Language, Translation (Cork: Cork
Uni Press 2000) by Michael Cronin.
impacts
Regional studies include Katherine Grenier's Tourism
and Identity in Scotland, 1770-1914: Creating Caledonia
(Aldershot: Ashgate 2005), Richard Starnes' Creating
the Land of the Sky: Tourism and Society in Western North
Carolina (Tuscaloosa: Uni of Alabama Press 2005),
Jim Weeks' Gettysburg: Memory, Market, and an American
Shrine (Princeton: Princeton Uni Press 2003).
Fussell's 'Travel, Tourism, and International Understanding'
in Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays
(New York: Summit 1988) is provocative.
Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage
(Berkeley: Uni of California Press 1998) by Kirschenblatt-Gimblett
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