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

• Autore: Gladstone David L.
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.4/791/091734
• Soggetto topico: Tourism - Developing countries
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: From pilgrimage to package tour
• ISBN: 1-136-07874-6; 1-283-96815-0; 0-203-68936-4; 1-136-07866-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786187503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II