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 of Content
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
About the author
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).
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