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Written in an accessible style, with many photographs of important tourist sites and drawings by the author, Smooth Sailing provides an ethnographically informed introduction to the nature of tourism and an important aspect of tourism, ocean cruising. The book discusses topics such as the nature of tourism, different kinds of tourists, the role that myths play in tourism, gratifications from tourism, and travel as a means of personal transformation. It also deals with ocean cruising and considers the notion that cruises are boring, social class and cruising, cruising and addiction, and cruising and the psyche.

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Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Abstract Keywords  Preface on the Covid-19 Virus  1 Introduction  2 Aspects of Travel and Tourism  3 Tourists and Travelers  4 The Mind Set of the Traveler  5 Notes on Ocean Cruising  6 Cruising and the Psyche  7 Princess Cruises: A Case Study  8 Coda References

Smooth Sailing: An Ethnographic and Socio-semiotic Analysis of Tourism and Ocean Cruising

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      Publisher: Brill
      Publication Date: 28/04/2022
      ISBN13: 9789004506275, 978-9004506275
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Written in an accessible style, with many photographs of important tourist sites and drawings by the author, Smooth Sailing provides an ethnographically informed introduction to the nature of tourism and an important aspect of tourism, ocean cruising. The book discusses topics such as the nature of tourism, different kinds of tourists, the role that myths play in tourism, gratifications from tourism, and travel as a means of personal transformation. It also deals with ocean cruising and considers the notion that cruises are boring, social class and cruising, cruising and addiction, and cruising and the psyche.

      Table of Contents
      Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Abstract Keywords  Preface on the Covid-19 Virus  1 Introduction  2 Aspects of Travel and Tourism  3 Tourists and Travelers  4 The Mind Set of the Traveler  5 Notes on Ocean Cruising  6 Cruising and the Psyche  7 Princess Cruises: A Case Study  8 Coda References

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