Understanding Tourism: A Critical Introduction

by Kevin Hannam and Dan Knox

Book Overview

Understanding Tourism introduces tourism students to concepts drawn from critical theory, cultural studies and the social sciences. It does so with a light and readable touch, highlighting the ideas that underlie contemporary critical tourism studies in a practical and engaging way.

Specifically, the authors examine how post-structuralist thought has led to a re-imagining of power relationships and the ways in which they are central...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 141292278X
• ISBN13: 9781412922784
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 9.4"