The business of tourism : place, faith, and history
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The business of tourism : place, faith, and history
（Hagley perspectives on business and culture）
University of Pennsylvania, c2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-286)
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Description
Emphasizing the economic and cultural dimensions of travel, The Business of Tourism explores the enterprises and technologies of tourist activity with a particular focus on tourism as a phenomenon through which nations, regions, and individuals produce and consume experiences. The volume is divided into three sections. "Commodifying Place" examines how tourist enterprises have helped to create a distinctive sense of identity for specific locales. "Engaging Religion" addresses the ways in which religion and religious travel have been marketed. "Marketing Communism" explores the role of tourism in buttressing ideas and attitudes in communist settings.
The essays in The Business of Tourism present a vigorous, novel, and empirically grounded vision of tourism as a local and global enterprise from the 1860s to the 1990s. They transport readers from Egypt in the 1860s, where Thomas Cook & Son laid the foundations for international mass tourism, to Burgundy's gastronomic festivals between the two world wars; from Branson, Missouri, to Belfast, Ireland, in an examination of religion in sightseeing; and in the final leg of the journey, from the Stalinist Soviet Union to post-Soviet Cuba, to see the changing relationship between marketing and communism. Taken together, the essays link the cultural practice of tourism to the businesses that create cultural experiences.
Table of Contents
Preface
-Philip Scranton
PART I: COMMODIFYING PLACE
Chapter 1: The East as an Exhibit: Thomas Cook & Son and the Origins of the International Tourism Industry In Egypt
-Waleed Hazbun
Chapter 2: The Compagnie Generale Transatlantique and the Development of Saharan Tourism in North Africa
-Kenneth J. Perkins
Chapter 3: "Food palaces built of sausages [and] great ships of lamb chops": The Gastronomical Fair of Dijon as Consuming Spectacle
-Philip Whalen
PART 2: ENGAGING RELIGION
Chapter 4: Consuming Simple Gifts: Shakers, Visitors, Goods
-Brian Bixby
Chapter 5: "I Would Much Rather See a Sermon than Hear One": Experiencing Faith at Silver Dollar City
-Aaron K. Ketchell
Chapter 6: "Troubles Tourism": Debating History and Voyeurism in Belfast, Northern Ireland
-Molly Hurley Depret
PART 3: MARKETING COMMUNISM
Chapter 7: "There's No Place Like Home": Soviet Tourism in Late Stalinism
-Anne Gorsuch
Chapter 8: Dangerous Liaisons: Soviet-Block Tourists and the Temptations of the Yugoslav Good Life in the 1960s and 1970s
-Patrick Hyder Patterson
Chapter 9: A Means of Last Resort: The European Transformation of the Cuban Hotel Industry and the American Response, 1987-2004
-Evan R. Ward
Afterword
-Janet F. Davidson
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Index
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