The Tourist Gaze 3.0

The original Tourist Gaze was a classic, marking out a new land to study and appreciate. This new edition extends into fresh areas with the same passion and insight of the object. Even more essential reading!
Nigel Thrift
Vice-Chancellor, Warwick University

The first edition of Tourist Gaze was a landmark in the theoretical development of tourism studies, and it inspired waves of research and often fierce debates that have reverberated over the following two decades. This new edition of the book is not only thoroughly revised but has also been given renewed cutting edge, particularly by the addition of chapters on risk and on digital photography. At the same time, our understanding of the tourist gaze has been reframed and broadened by the infusion of ideas about mobility and embodiment, making this book an essential read for every tourism scholar
Allan Williams
Professor of Tourism Management, University of Surrey

Don′t leave home without the 3rd edition! With new chapters and rigorous restructuring, this classic guide to critical tourism studies becomes even more useful to scholars and students across the social sciences and humanities. The Tourist Gaze 3.0 takes us on a detailed tour of the major concepts and approaches to one of the world′s largest culture industries. With fresh insights and new materials, this collaboratively written revision will immediately become required reading for those who pay attention to the world of travel, mobility, and visual culture
Caren Kaplan
Professor of Cultural Studies, Science and Technology, UC Davis

A great classic remade to capture the lives of tourists in the 21st century. For two decades The Tourist Gaze has been one of the most influential books in tourist research. This new and thoroughly reworked version meets the challenges of a changing world of tourism and engages the lively contemporary debates in the field
Orvar Löfgren
Professor of European Ethnology, University of Lund

This thoroughly updated edition of John Urry′s seminal contribution to tourist studies will engage a whole new generation of scholars. The extensive addition of new material absorbs and expands upon new insights from within this shifting field of study to develop an enhanced understanding of the tourist gaze. The fresh input of Jonas Larsen adds a renewed vibrancy to the debates which are, as ever, communicated in a brisk, inclusive and lucid fashion, and will ensure that The Tourist Gaze book retains its relevance for students and academics across the world
Tim Edensor
Reader in Cultural Geography, Manchester Metropolitan University

The Tourist Gaze has been the most influential book on tourism in the last twenty years. This extensively revised edition serves to remind us both why the original was so important and engages with the massive developments in the literature it helped to spawn. The impressive updating in response to theoretical debates is matched only by the response to the profound shifts in tourism itself, its markets, technologies and organisation, which indicates how much value still lies in the arguments made
Mike Crang
Reader in Geography, Durham University

Few scholarly books manage to be deeply serious and highly entertaining, but The Tourist Gaze has been absorbing its readers for more than two decades. This newly expanded third edition of Urry′s classic is a landmark in its own right; deepening and broadening its approach to the study of tourism in the era of the internet, global warming and peak oil. This book′s rich blend of cultural history, political economy and social enquiry takes us to the heart of some of the most urgent issues of our time
Meaghan Morris
Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney

The book covers a wide range of tourist-gaze interwoven topics such as theories; mass tourism; economies; working under the gaze; changing tourist cultures; places, buildings and design; vision and photography; performances; risks and futures which function as distinctive chapters within the book, along with an extremely generous bibliography and an index list...With an analytical discourse and the power of exemplification, the tacking of up-to-date emerging trends in tourist behavior and the authors’ genuine ability to read it, the book invites to a critical observation and meditation on today’s “society of spectacle” towards which tourism is heading to, meanwhile bringing a great contribution to tourism research and theoretical development
GeoJournal of Tourism and Geosites

A very useful text that supports the concept of Anthropology and Tourism. Great up to date issues discussed and brought into the 21st Century. -- Birte Schmitz * drupal *
The Tourist Gaze 3.0 contains significant amounts of new material compared to the previous edition of The Tourist Gaze. While still providing authoritative overviews of social and cultural theories of tourism, the history and economics of tourism, and, of course, the practices and materialities associated with the tourist gaze, each of the chapters has been updated. There are also new chapters on photography, performance, and ′risks and futures′ that keep the argument bang up to date. -- Dr Jason Lim * drupal *
A useful updated version of the tourism classic. -- Dr Jennifer Iles * drupal *
Recommended book for the course Tourism development and social and cultural impacts. This courses addresses Tourism theory in its first part. And this book is a classic on the field. Furthermore, this new and updated edition with Jonas Larsen incorporates new debates in a fast-paced changing issue such as tourism and mobility. -- Dr Joan Amer * drupal *
My students would find this book useful when they prepare a coursework. -- Dr Jung Woo Lee * drupal *
The book is a good read in formulating an alternative and modern view of modern tourism but not suitable as a textbook for students′ needs. -- Dr Nikolaos Stylos * drupal *
I have asked the librarian to buy some copies, since it will be suggested for students in Tourism and Constructed Identities, and also for the Literature Exam in Tourism Geography.
This is a classical book, and the rivisitation of the "gazing" concept to embed staging and performing, plus the tourist photography and visual analysis, is very relevant to explain the changing tourisms and behaviours. More and more Master theses are addressing issues through these concepts. These are also available through various journal articles, and that is why it is sufficient to have a librarian purchase. -- Dr Paola Minoia * drupal *
Essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate tourism courses -- Dr Pau Obrador Pons * drupal *
A classic text and a must for any student interested in understanding tourist perception. Illustrated with a liberal use of case studies. This is a clearly written student friendly text. -- Dr Paul Fidgeon * drupal *
This is a vital book for the subject and respresents a welcome updating of the previous editions. The new chapters point more clearly towards greater other potential areas of interdisciplinarity. -- Dr Peter Cox * drupal *
New and essential version of a key book for mobility studies. -- Dr Raquel Huete * drupal *
Very good book. It will be useful in two of my classes. I will be putting it on my recommendations list for students. -- Dr Romola Sanyal * drupal *
A true classic for everyone who is interested in the field of visual impact on society. The latest edition is even better, following new media and general Zeitgist flows. -- Dr Stefan Zimmermann * drupal *
A classic text book which every Tourism student should have read, providing a good snapshot of tourist behaviour and society. This edition benefits from interesting and timely updates to the changing and dynamic tourism industry and how tourists are changing. -- Dr Victoria Kennedy * drupal *
Great update to previous editions. recommended as essential reading and also for student led research projects. -- Miss Kathryn Bell * drupal *
Urry′s original 1990 text was ground breaking for its time. This new 3.0 edition continues to plot the cultural changes brought about by the continuing extension of liquid modernity over the globe. The Tourist Gaze 3.0 is an excellent text for undergraduates. The chapters are perfect starting points from which to initiate debates on emergent geographies, cultural performances and new outlooks in our era of mass mobilities and spectacularized markets.
-- Mr John Aitken * drupal *
together with my colleague we have decided to make the destination text supplementary reading for the new courses starting in year 3 and 4. The text is comprhensive and provides insight is various aspects of DM that is not or hardly covered by other books on the topic -- Mr Karel Werdler * drupal *
The book has become a classic text in travel and tourism studies and this new edition is yet another useful reference for academic, professionals and students in this multidisciplinary field! -- Mr Nikola Naumov * drupal *
The book is strongly recommended as additonal reading in social and cultural geography. It is certainly a "must read" on geographies of tourism. In courses on tourism it is, therefore, recommended as an essential reading. -- Mr Roland Lippuner * drupal *
An excellent update to a seminal text. The chapter on Tourism Risks and Futures is particularly salient (for my purposes). I always recommend it to my final year UG and PG(T) students studying social science perspectives on tourism. -- Mr Tim Gale * drupal *
I find this updated landmark contribution to the study of tourism sociology once again very useful as a basis of rich discussions at a Master′s degree class in Tourist Behaviour. -- Mr Volker Rundshagen * drupal *
Recommended reading on all 3rd year module reading lists and for all Tourism students completing a dissertation project. Excellent thought provoking insights into motivational theory representing an excellent insight into the tourist, traveller and individuals in general. -- Mrs Christine Hall * drupal *
An excellent book in a compact format. I have just requested the library to order two copies. It will be a recommended text on the new tourism modules. Currently in the programmatic review process and new modules will be presented from September 2015. Thank you. S -- Mrs Susanne O'Reilly * drupal *
An easy to follow text with interesting perspectives and approaches to key issues within and affecting the industry. Students will particularly find chapters 1-3, 5 and 9 useful for their studies within a number of modules on their programme. -- Ms Luane Quigley * drupal *
The book may be relevant to to the Heritage tourism course. I fnound chapters 6 and 7 as highly relevent for the course. -- Professor Yaniv Poria * drupal *