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Tourism and Culture: An Applied Perspective

Tourism and Culture: An Applied Perspective

Chambers, Erve

Paperback

Series: Suny Advances in Applied Anthropology

Anthropology

ISBN10: 0791434281
ISBN13: 9780791434284
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jul 31 1997
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.96 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

Essays and case studies by anthropologists provide insight into what measures might be necessary to mitigate the potentially harmful effects of tourism on host communities.

Anthropologists and other social scientists have only recently undertaken systematic studies of modern tourism. The need for such research is apparent given the fact that the travel and tourism industry has become one of the largest industries in the world. Major cities, entire countries, and even some of the most seemingly remote places on the globe, have become increasingly dependent on attracting tourists to their locales. The transformations that are occurring as a result of tourism are not solely economic-tourism can bring about profound cultural changes, can have important consequences for a region's ethnic and historic identity, and can produce significant social and political transformations to host communities. Few human activities have such great potential as does tourism for exposing on a personal level the considerable inequalities that do exist between people, particularly between people of different countries and different color.

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