From Pilgrimage to Package Tour: Travel and Tourism in the Third World / Edition 1

by David L. Gladstone

Overview

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 majority of tourists in the Third World are indigenous people with few resources-often making pilgrimages to religious shrines.
From Pilgrimage to Package Tour is a fresh and entirely original account that stands tourism studies on its head and proves that this industry is far more complicated than it initially appears.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415950633
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/12/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

David Gladstone is Assistant Professor of Urban and Public Affairs at the University of New Orleans. He also serves as the Director of their Ph.D. program in Urban Studies.

Table of Contents

Preface The Varieties of Touristic Experience Chapter One An Overview of Tourism in the 2000s Chapter Two Conceptualizing Travel and Tourism in Third World Countries Chapter Three The International Formal Sector: Mega-Resorts and National Tourism Planning in Mexico Chapter Four The International Informal Sector: Drifter Tourists in India and Mexico Chapter Five The Domestic Formal Sector: New Holidays for the New Middle Classes Chapter Six The Domestic Informal Sector: Migrants, Pilgrims, and Other Poor Travelers Chapter Seven An Alternative to the Alternative? Informality and Sustainable Tourism in the Third World List of Acronyms Notes References Index

Editorial Reviews

"...this is the best book on Third-World tourism produced thus far." - Dennis Judd, Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois - Chicago, and co-editor of The Tourist City

'Gladstone excels in his style of writings often touching dramatic heights. He creates tourism scenarios and fills them with native hue, noise and colour that the desination comes alive in the imagination of the reader... The strength of the book lies in its faithful account of the places and people in the Third World. It is ably documented with useful references for students of sociology of tourism, geography and anthropology of tourism. Planners and resource managers will also benefit from the innovative ideas introduced in the book for achieving much sought-after sustainibility.' Tourism Recreation Research, Vol 32(2), 2007

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