ENGLISH

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

By Robert C. Davis , Garry R. Marvin

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2004
ISBN
0520241207, 9780520241206, 0520238036, 9780520238039
LCC
DG674.2 .D34 2004
Google Books ID
3lb0CqYNx5MC
Open Library ID
OL3674063M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3101374 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
374\374
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

The tourist Venice is Venice, Mary McCarthy once observed--a sentiment very much in line with what most of the fourteen million tourists who visit the city each year experience, but at the same time a painful reality for the 65,000 Venetians who actually live there. Venice is viewed from a new perspective in this engaging book, which offers a heady, one-city tour of tourism itself. 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, the authors explore what happens when today's "industrial tourism" collides with an ancient and ever-more-fragile culture. Giving equal consideration to those who tour Venice and those who live there, their book affords rare insight into just what it is that the touring and the toured see, experience, and elicit from each other.

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