TY  - BOOK
AU  - MacCannell,Dean
TI  - The tourist: a new theory of the leisure class 
SN  - 9780520280007
U1  - 306.4819 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Berkeley, Los Angeles, London : 
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Tourism
KW  - Tourist trade
N1  - With a new introduction; Includes notes and index; Ch. 1. Modernity and the production of touristic experiences --   
Ch. 2. Sightseeing and social structure --   
Ch. 3. The Paris case: origins of alienated leisure --   
Ch. 4. The other attractions --   
Ch. 5. Staged authenticity --   
Ch. 6. A semiotic attraction --   
Ch. 7. The ethnomethodology of sightseers --   
Ch. 8. Structure, genuine and spurious --   
Ch. 9. On theory, methods and applications
N2  - It is a classic analysis of travel and sightseeing that brings social scientific understanding to bear on tourism in the postindustrial age, during which the middle class has acquired leisure time for international travel. It examines notions of authenticity, high and low culture, and the construction of social reality around tourism
ER  -