The Tourist Gaze 3.0
- John Urry - Lancaster University, UK
- Jonas Larsen - University of Roskilde, Denmark
- Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor, Warwick University
This new edition of a seminal text restructures, reworks and remakes the groundbreaking previous versions making this book even more relevant for tourism students, researchers and designers. 'The tourist gaze' remains an agenda setting theory. Packed full of fascinating insights this major new edition intelligently broadens its theoretical and geographical scope to provide an account which responds to various critiques.
All chapters have been significantly revised to include up-to-date empirical data, many new case studies and fresh concepts. Three new chapters have been added which explore:
- photography and digitization
- embodied performances
- risks and alternative futures
This book is essential reading for all involved in contemporary tourism, leisure, cultural policy, design, economic regeneration, heritage and the arts.
A very useful text that supports the concept of Anthropology and Tourism. Great up to date issues discussed and brought into the 21st Century.
Very good book. It will be useful in two of my classes. I will be putting it on my recommendations list for students.
This is a vital book for the subject and respresents a welcome updating of the previous editions. The new chapters point more clearly towards greater other potential areas of interdisciplinarity.
The book may be relevant to to the Heritage tourism course. I fnound chapters 6 and 7 as highly relevent for the course.
Essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate tourism courses
The book is strongly recommended as additonal reading in social and cultural geography. It is certainly a "must read" on geographies of tourism. In courses on tourism it is, therefore, recommended as an essential reading.
A classic text and a must for any student interested in understanding tourist perception. Illustrated with a liberal use of case studies. This is a clearly written student friendly text.
