Tourist Cultures: Identity, Place and the Traveller

by Stephen Wearing

Sharp, engaging, and relevant this book presents a framework for understanding tourism which is subject-centered, dynamic, and capable of dealing with the complexity of contemporary tourist cultures. Tourism is examined through a consideration of the spaces and selves of travel, exploring the cultures of meaning, mobilities, and engagement that frame and define the tourist experience and traveler identities. This book draws on the explanatory traditions of sociology, human geography, and tourism studies to provide useful insights into the experiential and the lived dimensions of tourism and travel.

184 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2003

Reviews

[Michael Palkowski]

Extremely useful book for tracing the development of the Flaneur concept through tourism studies (and the eventual mutation of it into the Choraster etc) This treatment can be supplemented with Wearing's articles. A key example is here: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10...