Peter Burns is Head of Tourism and Leisure at the University of Luton

"An Introduction to Tourism and Anthropology offers an accessible, but stimulating, read for those students and academics with an interest in the fascinating and complex interrelationships between tourism, culture and anthropology...it would serve as an excellent core text for the teaching of specialist units in the field of tourism, anthropology and cultural tourism" Melanie Smith, Information Technologies and Tourism Vol 2 1999'For those of us teaching courses on the anthropology of tourism, Prof. Peter M. Burns has done is a great service by writing the first accessible, inexpensive, systematic text in the field.' - Tim Wallace, Tourism, Culture and Communication

• List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Part 1. Anthropology, Tourism and Tourists Chapter 1. Anthropology Chapter 2. Tourism Chapter 3. Tourists Chapter 4. Culture Part 2. Anthropology of Tourism, Globalisation and Development Chapter 5. The Anthroplogy of Tourism Chapter 6. Issues in the Anthropology of Tourism Chapter 7. Globalisation, Tourism and Hospitality Chapter 8. Charting Development Thinking Bibliography