Orvar Löfgren 
On Holiday [EPUB ebook] 
A History of Vacationing

Löfgren takes us on a tour of the Western holiday world and shows how two centuries of ‘learning to be a tourist’ have shaped our own ways of vacationing. We see how fashions in destinations have changed through the years, with popular images (written, drawn, painted, and later photographed) teaching the tourist what to look for and how to experience it. Travelers present and future will never see their cruises, treks, ecotours, round-the-world journeys, or trips to the vacation cottage or condo in quite the same way again. All our land-, sea-, and mindscapes will be the richer for Löfgren’s insights.

Table des matières

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction


PART ONE: LANDSCAPES AND MINDSCAPES

Looking for Sights

On the Move

Telling Stories


PART TWO: GETAWAYS

Cottage Cultures

The Mediterranean in the Age of the Package Tour


PART THREE: BETWEEN THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL

The Global Beach

Resort Ruins

Looking for Tourists


Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

A propos de l’auteur

Orvar Löfgren, Professor of European Ethnology at the University of Lund, Sweden, has written a dozen books. His best-known work is also in English: Culture Builders: A Historical Anthropology of Middle-Class Life (with Jonas Frykman, 1987).