This is a fully revised edition of the groundbreaking study on tourism, which was originally
published in 1990. The original chapters have been empirically updated and many new …

I am very grateful for the advice, encouragement and assistance of the following, especially
those who have provided me with tourist gems from around the world: Paul Bagguley, Nick …

This book looks at the making and the consuming of places in the contemporary world.
Illustrated through various case-studies from Denmark, it considers how places …

Rob Shields, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University, Ottawa, the
founding editor of Space and Culture and on the Board of Theory, Culture and Society …

Not surprisingly, then, tourism in Boston does not stand far apart from the city's other
commercial, cultural and recreational activities; to a great extent then it is absorbed into the …

This article contributes to the conceptual debate on tourist experiences. The article offers an
overview of the developments within the field of consumer or consumption experience with …

Tourism has become increasingly 'exotic', a process made possible by low-cost charter
tourism and cheaper air tickets. Faraway and evermore 'exotic'holidays are becoming …

The Tourist Gaze [Urry J, 1990 (Sage, London)] is one of the most discussed and cited
tourism books (with about 4000 citations on Google scholar). Whilst wide ranging in scope …

Despite the fact that tourists constantly interact corporeally with things and physical places,
tourist studies have failed to understand the significance of materiality and objects in modern …

This book presents a new way of understanding heritage tourism that focuses on what
people feel and not just what they see. Traditionally, semiotics points to the study of signs …