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Atlas of travel and tourism development / Myra L Shackley
Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2006.
217 pages. : illustrations
Ký hiệu phân loại (DDC): 338.4791
From travel in the ancient and classical world to the growth of underwater tourism in the Great Barrier Reef and the influence of the Gulf War on regional tourism, the Atlas of Travel and Tourism Development is a new departure from conventional texts, providing a unique overview of the growth of the tourism industry. Divided into three sections, the text looks first at the past, examining the influence of global geography on travel patterns, and provides an overview of the history of travel and tourism. It then moves onto the present, using a regional framework to demonstrate how the physical and historical geography of each area is related to tourism development. The final section provides a forecast of future trends for the next two decades. * A unique pictorial history of global travel and exploration * Easy-to-use maps that chart development of tourism * Explains the growth of tourism destinations and trends in a geographic and historic global context.
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Mark Twain, travel books, and tourism : the tide of a great popular movement / Jeffrey Alan Melton
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2002.
220 pages. : illustrations
Ký hiệu phân loại (DDC): 818.409
This illuminating study reevaluates an often overlooked aspect of Mark Twain's writing-his travel narratives-and demonstrates their centrality to his identity and thinking. Travel books, Jeffrey Melton asserts in this study, are vital to Mark Twain's identity as a writer and to his cultural influence, and not just, as many critics have argued, preliminary sketches or failed attempts at fiction. Furthermore, the identity that Twain establishes for himself in these books as the arch "tourist" provides the most compelling perspective from which to view his entire body of work. Melton be.
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