From Pilgrimage to Package Tour: Travel and Tourism in the Third World

by Gladstone; David L.

• ISBN13: 9780415950633
• ISBN10: 0415950635
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-09-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

When people in First World countries think of tourists in the vast expanses of the Third World today, they typically think of pampered westerners, filling up the luxury hotels and imposing their Orientalist gazes on the teeming masses. As David Gladstone shows us in this fascinating and provocative book, such preconceptions are wrong. Coupling incisive and colorful ethnographic accounts of tourism in India and Mexico with sharp analysis, Gladstone demonstrates the amazing complexity of this industry, which now comprises close to ten percent of the world economy. As he also shows, the vast majority of tourists in the Third World are indigenous people with few resources-often making pilgrimages to religious shrines. From Pilgrimage to Package Tour is a fresh and entirely original account that stands tourism studies on its head and proves that this industry is far more complicated than it initially appears.

Author Biography

David L. Gladstone is Assistant Professor in the College of Urban and Public Affairs at the University of New Orleans

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Preface	ix
An Overview of Tourism in the 2000s	1	(24)
Conceptualizing Travel and Tourism in Third World Countries	25	(26)
The International Formal Sector: Megaresorts and National Tourism Planning in Mexico	51	(42)
The International Informal Sector: Drifter Tourists in India and Mexico	93	(34)
The Domestic Formal Sector: New Holidays for the New Middle Classes	127	(34)
The Domestic Informal Sector: Migrants, Pilgrims, and Other Poor Travelers	161	(34)
An Alternative to the Alternative? Informality and Sustainable Tourism in the Third World	195	(14)
Notes	209	(6)
List of Acronyms	215	(2)
References	217	(12)
Index	229