The Business of Tourism: Place, Faith, and History
Edited by Philip Scranton and Janet F. Davidson
304 pages | 6 x 9 | 18 illus.
Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3968-3 | $55.00 | £36.00
Paper Dec 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-1965-4 | $24.95 | £16.50
A volume in the Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture series
The Business of Tourism transports readers from the foundations of mass leisure travel in 1860s Egypt to contemporary religious sight-seeing in Branson, Missouri; from the Stalinist Soviet Union to post-Soviet Cuba. This collection of ten essays explores the enterprises, institutions, and technologies of tourist activity.
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