Accessibility
The Barnes & Noble Holiday Gift Guide Find the Perfect Gift | Shop Now The Barnes & Noble Holiday Gift Guide Find the Perfect Gift | Shop Now

The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class

Paperback
$29.95
Promotion message icon

Premium Members save an extra 10% and all Members collect stamps to save with Rewards. 10 stamps = $5.

Formats
This item is currently out of stock online.
Select a store to view item availability.
In this classic analysis of travel and sightseeing, author Dean MacCannell brings social scientific understandings to bear on tourism in the postindustrial age, during which the middle class has acquired leisure time for international travel.

In The Tourist—now with a new introduction framing it as part of a broader contemporary social and cultural analysis—the author examines notions of authenticity, high and low culture, and the construction of social reality around tourism.