The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class

In this classic analysis of travel and sightseeing, author Dean MacCannell brings social scientific understandings to bear on tourism in the postindustrial age, during which the middle class has acquired leisure time for international travel.

In The Tourist--now with a new introduction framing it as part of a broader contemporary social and cultural analysis--the author examines notions of authenticity, high and low culture, and the construction of social reality around tourism.

Author: Dean MacCannell
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 08/31/2013
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780520280007