The Tourist Gaze 3.0 (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)

by John Urry and Jonas Larsen

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"The original Tourist Gaze was a classic, marking out a new land to study and appreciate. This new edition extends into fresh areas with the same passion and insight of the object. Even more essential reading!"
- 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 digitizationembodied performancesrisks and alternative futures

This book is essential reading for all involved in contemporary tourism, leisure, cultural policy, design, economic regeneration, heritage and the arts.

  • ISBN10 6613812587
  • ISBN13 9786613812582
  • Publish Date 24 August 2011
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 11 September 2012
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Not Avail
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 297
  • Language English