Venice, the Tourist Maze: A Cultural Critique of the World's Most Touristed City Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Venice, the Tourist Maze: A Cultural Critique of the World's Most Touristed City Book

Charting the history of tourism in the most tourist-visited place on the planet, this title at the same time offers a critique of the city-as-tourist-destination. The 'maze' is the paradox created when a city becomes a theme park, entertaining visitors on an industrial scale.Read More

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  • ASDA

    Views Venice from a fresh perspective. Conducting readers from the beginnings of Venetian tourism in the late Middle Ages to its emergence as a form of mass entertainment in our time this book explores what happens when today's 'industrial tourism' collides with an ancient and ever-more-fragile culture.

  • Blackwell

    A history of Venice through the lense of tourism and it's evolving Landscape, Waterscape and finally it's Worldscape as the most visited city on the planet during the last half millennium. The tourist Venice is Venice, Mary McCarthy once...

  • 0520241207
  • 9780520241206
  • RC Davis
  • 22 June 2004
  • University of California Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 372
  • illustrated edition
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