Tourism

Adrian is a prolific researcher, writer and presenter, and is currently editor of SAGE′s HSS journal Tourist Studies. He has written numerous articles for a range of journals, from Journal of Sociology and Body and Society to International Review for the Sociology of Sport and Environment and Planning D. He has written three previous book for SAGE: Tourism: An Introduction (2003), Nature and Social Theory (2002) and Animals and Modern Culture (1999). He also presents a television show called The Collectors (ABC, Australia).

`Argued with a real verve, it makes a plea to rethink the role of tourism in modernity seeing it not as a fleeting and marginal element, but as something enduring, emblematic and constitutive of contemporary society. Tourism is seen as a key element of modern life, not an escape from it′ - Mike Crang, Department of Geography, University of Durham ′Tourism: A Guide represents the best new work in the study of contemporaryculture. An original thinker and lively writer, Franklin charts the movingedge of a field that is racing to keep up with its transforming object.Responding to changes in the nature of tourism itself, Franklin redefinesthe very subject of tourist studies and demonstrates the value of embodiedand performative approaches to tourism as a feature of everyday life.Tourism: A Guide is essential reading′ - Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York University, Author of Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums and Heritage

• IntroductionPART ONE: QUESTIONS AND SCOPEWhat Is Tourism?The Foundations and Traces of Modern TourismElaborations of TourismPART TWO: OBJECTS AND RITUALSTourist Objects, Tourist RitualsObjects and Rituals of SeasideObjects and Rituals of HeritagePART THREE: THE EMBODIED TOURISTTourisms of Body and NatureSex and TourismConclusionA World of Tourism