Now Available–The Business of Tourism


The Business of Tourism: Place, Faith, and History


Philip Scranton and Janet F. Davidson, Editors

304 pages | 6 x 9 | 18 illus.

Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3968-7 | $55.00 | £36.00

A volume in the Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture series

The Business of TourismThe 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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