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Exploring travel and tourism [electronic resource]

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Exploring Travel and Tourism: Essays on Journeys and Destinations offers a broad treatment of topics in global travel/tourism studies through articles presented at Travel and Tourism panels at Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association conferences between 2007 and 2010. Through archival research, close readings and case studies, the authors examine the significance of travel and the tourist experience over the last two hundred years, from Borneo to Cuba to Niagara Falls, and places in ...

Title Exploring travel and tourism [electronic resource] : essays on journeys and destinations / edited by Jennifer Erica Sweda.
Publisher Newcastle upon Tyne [England] : Cambridge Scholars Pub.
Creation Date 2012
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references.
English
Content pt. 1. The personal travel narrative : constructing the self through encounters with the other -- pt. 2. Constructing a national identity through tourism -- pt. 3. The meaning of journey
the meaning of destination.
Extent 1 online resource (256 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010720599605171
MARC RECORDS
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