{"product_id":"the-business-of-tourism-place-faith-and-history-paperback-softback-9780812219654","title":"The Business of Tourism; Place, Faith, and History (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812219654","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Business of Tourism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePlace, Faith, and History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePhilip Scranton (Edited by), Janet F. Davidson (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812219654\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 November 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages, 18 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.45 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmphasizing the economic and cultural dimensions of travel, \u003ci\u003eThe Business of Tourism\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe essays in \u003ci\u003eThe Business of Tourism\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u0026amp; 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e -Philip Scranton\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART I: COMMODIFYING PLACE\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: The East as an Exhibit: Thomas Cook \u0026amp; Son and the Origins of the International Tourism Industry In Egypt\u003cbr\u003e -Waleed Hazbun\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: The Compagnie GÉnÉrale Transatlantique and the Development of Saharan Tourism in North Africa\u003cbr\u003e -Kenneth J. Perkins\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: \"Food palaces built of sausages [and] great ships of lamb chops\": The Gastronomical Fair of Dijon as Consuming Spectacle\u003cbr\u003e -Philip Whalen\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART 2: ENGAGING RELIGION\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Consuming Simple Gifts: Shakers, Visitors, Goods\u003cbr\u003e -Brian Bixby\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: \"I Would Much Rather See a Sermon than Hear One\": Experiencing Faith at Silver Dollar City\u003cbr\u003e -Aaron K. Ketchell\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: \"Troubles Tourism\": Debating History and Voyeurism in Belfast, Northern Ireland\u003cbr\u003e -Molly Hurley DÉpret\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART 3: MARKETING COMMUNISM\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: \"There's No Place Like Home\": Soviet Tourism in Late Stalinism\u003cbr\u003e -Anne Gorsuch\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8: Dangerous Liaisons: Soviet-Block Tourists and the Temptations of the Yugoslav Good Life in the 1960s and 1970s\u003cbr\u003e -Patrick Hyder Patterson\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9: A Means of Last Resort: The European Transformation of the Cuban Hotel Industry and the American Response, 1987-2004\u003cbr\u003e -Evan R. Ward\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword\u003cbr\u003e -Janet F. Davidson\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555686543640,"sku":"9780812219654","price":22.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-business-of-tourism-place-faith-and-history-paperback-softback-9780812219654","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}