Tourism in Global Society

Download or read book Tourism in Global Society written by Kevin Meethan and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-05-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a wealth of scholarship on tourism from a variety of different disciplines, but few attempts to synthesize its broad themes into a coherent analytical framework. This book addresses this problem by analyzing tourism in light of contemporary social theory. By focusing on tourism in terms of consumption, commodification, and the political and cultural economy, the relationships between tourism, globalization, people, and place are explored in an empirically grounded but theoretically informed analysis.