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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786187503321

Autore

Gladstone David L.

Titolo

From pilgrimage to package tour : travel and tourism in the third world / / David L. Gladstone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-136-07874-6

1-283-96815-0

0-203-68936-4

1-136-07866-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Disciplina

338.4/791/091734

Soggetti

Tourism - Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-227) and index.

Nota di contenuto

An overview of tourism in the 2000s -- Conceptualizing travel and tourism in Third World countries -- The international formal sector : megaresorts and national tourism planning in Mexico -- The international informal sector : drifter tourists in India and Mexico -- The domestic formal sector : new holidays for the new middle classes -- The domestic informal sector : migrants, pilgrims, and other poor travelers -- An alternative to the alternative? : informality and sustainable tourism in the Third World.

Sommario/riassunto

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 majo