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The Tourist Gaze
John Urry
其他書名
Leisure and Travel in Contemporary Societies
出版Sage Publications, 1990
主題Business & Economics / Industries / GeneralBusiness & Economics / Industries / Hospitality, Travel & TourismSocial Science / GeneralSocial Science / Anthropology / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralTravel / Essays & Travelogues
ISBN08039818219780803981829
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-t9-AAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Tourism is both a key aspect of modern life and a substantial industry; yet its importance has been generally unrecognized by academic commentators. In this book John Urry sets out to construct a distinctive sociology of tourism. He demonstrates that tourism deserves attention not only in its own right but as a central element of broad cultural changes in contemporary society. are systematic ways of seeing what we as tourists look at and that these ways of seeing can be described and explained. John Urry develops this analysis through various levels - historical, economic, social, cultural and visual. its development as a global industry. The economic impact and complex social relations involved in international tourism are explored. Changing patterns of tourism are shown to be connected to the broader cultural changes of postmodernism and related to the role of the service and middle classes. The author argues that we are seeing a universalization of the tourist gaze and increasing confusion between tourism as it is conventionally understood and a host of other social practices - shopping, sport, culture, hobbies, leisure and education.