International Tourism: Identity and Change (SAGE Studies in International Sociology)

Tourism is becoming an increasingly prominent feature of contemporary life. More of us travel for pleasure than ever before, yet the social scientific literature on tourism is relatively scant. This book provides an original contribution to the field of tourist studies.The contributors to **International Tourism** reconceptualize the local and the global, avoiding such crude oppositions as centre v periphery, modern v traditional, macro v micro and North v South. Instead, they demonstrate that the local cannot be understood without the global, and that the global can never be isolated from the regional setting within which it operates. Providing new insights into theories of touristic practice, this volume place International Tourism, Internationalization And The Challenge To Identity / Marie-françoise Lanfant -- Cultural Heritage And Tourist Capital : Cultural Tourism In Bali / Michel Picard -- Textiles, Memory And The Souvenir Industry In The Andes / Anath Ariel De Vidas -- Frontier Minorities, Tourism And The State In Indian Himalaya And Northern Thailand / Jean Michaud -- International Tourism And The Appropriation Of History In The Balkans / John B. Allcock -- Industrial Heritage In The Tourism Process In France / Claude-marie Bazin -- Tourism And Tradition : Local Control Versus Outside Interests In Greece / Wendy Williams And Elly Maria Papamichael -- The Jewish Pilgrim And The Purchase Of A Souvenir In Israel / Shelly Shenhav-keller -- International Tourism And Utopia : The Balearic Islands / Danielle Rozenberg. Life As A Tourist Object In Australia / Meaghan Morris -- Sex Tourism And Traditional Australian Male Identity / Suzy Kruhse-mount Burton -- The Anthropologist As Tourist / Malcolm Crick -- The Ethnographer : Tourist In Indonesia / Edward M. Bruner. Edited By Marie-françoise Lanfant, John B. Allcock, And Edward M. Bruner. Sponsored By The International Sociological Association. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover 1 Table of Contents 6 Introduction 12 1 - International Tourism, Internationalization and the Challenge to Identity 35 2 - Cultural Heritage and Tourist Capital: Cultural Tourism in Bali 55 3 - Textiles, Memory and the Souvenir Industry in the Andes 78 4 - Froniter Minorities, Tourism and the State in Indian Himalaya and Northern Thailand 95 5 - International Tourism and the Appropriation of History in the Balkans 111 6 - Industrial Heritage in the Tourism Process in France 124 7 - Tourism and Tradition: Local Control versus Outside Inerests in Greece 138 8 - The Jewish Pilgrim and the Purchase of a Souvenir in Israel 154 9 - International Tourism and Utopia: the Balearic Islands 170 10 - Life as a Tourist Object in Australia 188 11 - Sex Tourism and Traditional Australian Male Identity 203 12 - The Anthropologist as Tourist: an Identity in Question 216 13 - The Ethnographer/Tourist in Indonesia 235 Index 253 This book broadens the discussion and challenges the traditional paradigm which presents tourism as an outside force - independant of any cultural or symbolic system - making an impact on an indigenous society. The contributors to International Tourism reconceptualize the local and the global, avoiding such crude oppositions as centre v. periphery, modern v. traditional, macro v. micro and North v. South. Instead, they demonstrate that the local cannot be understood without the global, and that the global can never be isolated from the regional setting within which it operates. Providing new insights into theories of touristic practice, this volume places tourism within the same framework as other transnational global studies. In addition, it offers a sophisticated contribution to the debate on identity and otherness, touching upon the fundamental issues of 'us' and 'them', collectivity and difference. This book broadens the discussion and challenges the traditional paradigm which presents tourism as an outside force - independent of any cultural or symbolic system - making an impact on an indigenous society. The contributors to International Tourism reconceptualize the local and the global, avoiding such crude oppositions as centre v. periphery, modern v. traditional, macro v. micro and North v. South. Instead, they demonstrate that the local cannot be understood without the global, and that the global can never be isolated from the regional setting within which it operates. Providing new insights into theories of touristic practice, this volume places tourism within the same framework as other transnational global studies. In addition, it offers a sophisticated contribution to the debate on identity and otherness, touching upon the fundamental issues of 'us' and 'them', collectivity and difference Tourism is becoming an increasingly prominent feature of contemporary life. More of us travel for pleasure than ever before, yet the social scientific literature on tourism is relatively scant. This book provides an original contribution to the field of tourist studies. The contributors to International Tourism reconceptualize the local and the global, avoiding such crude oppositions as centre v periphery, modern v traditional, macro v micro and North v South. Instead, they demonstrate that the local cannot be understood without the global, and that the global can never be isolated from the regional setting within which it operates. Providing new insights into theories of touristic practice, this volume place T̀his book is one of several indications that the sociology of tourism is on the move. these articles raise relevant important themes in the study of tourism. The contributors to this very readable book provide valuable insights, many of which have been derived from empirical research, that should interest anyone involved in the study of international tourism. And by moving us away from polarised positions over the social impact of tourism toward more complex but also more considered perspectives they have also helped alter the agenda for future research' - David Harrison, University of Suss International Tourism reconceptualizes the local and the global, avoiding such crude oppositions as centre v periphery, modern v traditional and North v South, demonstrating that the local cannot be understood without the global, and that the global can never be isolated from the regional setting within which it operates.