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Book SynopsisThe Business of Tourism transports readers from the foundations of mass leisure travel in 1860s Egypt to contemporary religious sight-seeing in Branson, Missouri; from the Stalinist Soviet Union to post-Soviet Cuba. This collection of ten essays explores the enterprises, institutions, and technologies of tourist activity.
Table of ContentsPreface
—Philip Scranton
PART I: COMMODIFYING PLACE
Chapter 1: The East as an Exhibit: Thomas Cook & Son and the Origins of the International Tourism Industry In Egypt
—Waleed Hazbun
Chapter 2: The Compagnie Générale Transatlantique and the Development of Saharan Tourism in North Africa
—Kenneth J. Perkins
Chapter 3: "Food palaces built of sausages [and] great ships of lamb chops": The Gastronomical Fair of Dijon as Consuming Spectacle
—Philip Whalen
PART 2: ENGAGING RELIGION
Chapter 4: Consuming Simple Gifts: Shakers, Visitors, Goods
—Brian Bixby
Chapter 5: "I Would Much Rather See a Sermon than Hear One": Experiencing Faith at Silver Dollar City
—Aaron K. Ketchell
Chapter 6: "Troubles Tourism": Debating History and Voyeurism in Belfast, Northern Ireland
—Molly Hurley Dépret
PART 3: MARKETING COMMUNISM
Chapter 7: "There's No Place Like Home": Soviet Tourism in Late Stalinism
—Anne Gorsuch
Chapter 8: Dangerous Liaisons: Soviet-Block Tourists and the Temptations of the Yugoslav Good Life in the 1960s and 1970s
—Patrick Hyder Patterson
Chapter 9: A Means of Last Resort: The European Transformation of the Cuban Hotel Industry and the American Response, 1987-2004
—Evan R. Ward
Afterword
—Janet F. Davidson
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Index
