The Tourist Gaze 3.0 - Paperback

by John Urry (Author), Jonas Larsen (Author)

The Tourist Gaze, Third Edition restructures, reworks and remakes the groundbreaking previous versions making this successful book even more relevant for tourism students, researchers and designers in the new century.

The tourist gaze remains an agenda setting theory, incorporating new principles and research. Packed full of fascinating insights this new edition is fresh and contemporary, intelligently broadening its theoretical and geographical scope and providing a nuanced account which responds to various critiques.

The book has been significantly revised to include up-to-date empirical data, many new case studies and fresh concepts. Three new chapters have been added which explore:

- photography and digitization

- embodied performances

- risks and alternative futures

Innovative and informative, this book is essential reading for all involved in contemporary tourism, leisure, cultural policy, design, economic regeneration, heritage and the arts.

Author Biography

John Urry is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe) at Lancaster University, and one of the founding editors of the Routledge journal Mobilities. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Founding Academician for the UK Academy of Social Sciences, and was Chair of the Sociology RAE Panel for five years between 1996 and 2001. He has published over 40 books and special issues of journals, including Sociology beyond Societies (2000), The Tourist Gaze (2002), Global Complexity (2003), Performing Tourist Places (2004), Mobilities, Networks, Geographies (2006), Mobilities (2007), Aeromobilities (2009), and After the Car (2009). He is currently writing Mobile Lives, co-editing a journal special issue on Global Heating and co-editing a book on Mobile Methods.

For over 25 years now he has been an active and renowned researcher, and he is a stellar name in the field of sociology.

Jonas Larsen is a lecturer in space, place, mobility and urban studies in the Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change at Roskilde University, Denmark. His research interests include cultural and social geography, mobility, travel and tourism. He has published three books: Tourism, Performance and the Everyday: Consuming the Orient (2009), Mobilities, Networks, Geographies (2006), and Performing Tourist Places (2004).