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In this classic analysis of travel and sightseeing, author Dean MacCannell brings social scientific understandings to bear on tourism in the postindustrial age, during which the middle class has acquired leisure time for international travel. In The Tourist?now with a new introduction framing it as part of a broader contemporary social and cultural analysis?the author examines notions of authenticity, high and low culture, and the construction of social reality around tourism.Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-139780520280007
eBay Product ID (ePID)183213322
Product Key Features
Number of Pages280 Pages
Publication NameThe Tourist: a New Theory of the Leisure Class
LanguageEnglish
SubjectBusiness
Publication Year2013
TypeTextbook
AuthorDean Maccannell
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height210 mm
Item Weight318 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorDean Maccannell