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Title The business of tourism : place, faith, and history / edited by Philip Scranton and Janet F. Davidson
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania, 2006

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Description x, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Hagley perspectives on business and culture
Hagley perspectives on business and culture.
Contents Ch. 1. The East as an exhibit : Thomas Cook & Son and the origins of the international tourism industry in Egypt / Waleed Hazbun -- Ch. 2. The compagnie generale transatlantique and the development of Saharan tourism in North Africa / Kenneth J. Perkins -- Ch. 3. "Food palace built of sausages [and] great ships of lamb chops" : the gastronomical fair of Dijon as consuming spectacle / Philip Whalen -- Ch. 4. Consuming simple gifts : Shakers, visitors, goods / Brian Bixby -- Ch. 5. "I would much rather see a sermon than hear one" : experiencing faith at Silver Dollar City / Aaron K. Ketchell -- Ch. 6. "Troubles tourism" : debating history and voyeurism in Belfast, Northern Ireland / Molly Hurley Depret -- Ch. 7. "There's no place like home" : Soviet tourism in late Stalinism / Anne E. Gorsuch -- Ch. 8. Dangerous liaisons : Soviet-bloc tourists and the temptations of the Yugoslav good life in the 1960s and 1970s / Patrick Hyder Patterson
Ch. 9. A means of last resort : the European transformation of the Cuban hotel industry and the American response, 1987-2004 / Evan R. Ward
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Shakers -- Industries
Tourism -- Northern Ireland.
Tourism -- Former communist countries.
Tourism -- Soviet Union.
Tourism -- Cuba.
Tourism -- Social aspects.
Tourism -- History.
Tourism -- Egypt.
Tourism.
SUBJECT Silver Dollar City (Branson, Mo.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98003663
Author Scranton, Philip.
Davidson, Janet F.
Center for the History of Business, Technology & Society (Hagley Museum and Library)
LC no. 2006045666
ISBN 9780812239683
0812239687 cloth alkaline paper
Other Titles Consuming experiences