Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/9DJ0cJP Hosts and Guests The Anthropology of Tourism By: Valene L. Smith Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Print ISBN: 9780812212808, 0812212800 eText ISBN: 9780812208016, 0812208013 Edition: 2nd Pages: 352 Copyright year: 1989 Format: EPUB Available from $ 32.50 USD SKU 9780812208016 Tourism—one of the world's largest industries—has long been appreciated for its economic benefits, but in this volume tourism receives a unique systematic scrutiny as a medium for cultural exchange. Modern developments in technology and industry, together with masterful advertising, have created temporarily leisured people with the desire and the means to travel. They often in turn effect profound cultural change in the places they visit, and the contributors to this work all attend to the impact these guests have on their hosts. In contrast to the dramatic economic transformations, the social repercussions of tourism are subtle and often recognized only by the indigenous peoples themselves and by the anthropologists who have studied them before and after the introduction of tourism. The case studies in Hosts and Guests examine the five types of tourism—historical, cultural, ethnic, environmental, and recreational—and their impact on diverse societies over a broad geographical range
