This text broadens the discussion and challenges the traditional paradigm which presents tourism as an outside force - independent of any cultural or symbolic system - making an impact on an indigenous society. The contributors reconceptualize the local and the global, avoiding basic oppositions such as centre versus periphery, modern versus traditional, macro versus micro and the North versus South. Instead, they demonstrate that the local cannot be understood without the global, and that the global can never be isolated from the regional setting within which it operates. Providing insights into theories of touristic practice, this volume places tourism within the same framework as other transnational global studies. In addition, it offers a contribution to the debate on identity and otherness, touching upon the fundamental issues of "us" and "them", collectivity and difference.
In addition to undergraduate teaching in a wide variety of areas of the discipline, I became an internationally recognised specialist inn the study of the former Yugoslavia. I served as an advisor to Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons, and as an expert witness to the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague
Introduction - Marie-Francoise Lanfant International Tourism, Internationalization and the Challenge to Identity - Marie-Francoise Lanfant Cultural Heritage and Tourist Capital - Michel Picard Cultural Tourism in Bali Textiles, Memory and the Souvenir Industry in the Andes - Anath Ariel de Vidas Frontier Minorities, Tourism and the State in Indian Himalaya and Northern Thailand - Jean Michaud International Tourism and the Appropriation of History in the Balkans - John B Allcock Industrial Heritage in the Tourism Process in France - Claude-Marie Bazin Tourism and Tradition - Wendy Williams and Elly Maria Papamichael Local Control versus Outside Interests in Greece The Jewish Pilgrim and the Purchase of a Souvenir in Israel - Shelley Shenhav-Keller International Tourism and Utopia - Danielle Rozenberg The Balearic Islands Life as a Tourist Object in Australia - Meaghan Morris Sex Tourism and Traditional Australian Male Identity - Suzy Kruhse-MountBurton The Anthropologist as Tourist - Malcolm Crick An Identity in Question The Ethnographer/Tourist in Indonesia - Edward M Bruner
`This book is one of several indications that the sociology of tourism is on the move.... these articles raise relevant important themes in the study of tourism.... The contributors to this very readable book provide valuable insights, many of which have been derived from empirical research, that should interest anyone involved in the study of international tourism. And by moving us away from polarised positions over the social impact of tourism toward more complex but also more considered perspectives they have also helped alter the agenda for future research' - David Harrison, University of Sussex
