Scotland for the Holidays? by Alastair J Durie
Tourism is now the most important economic activity in the world, with scarcely any part of the globe unaffected. Tourist money powers resort developement, and, critics would argue, can corrupt and corrode traditional societies. The temptation is strong to provide tourists with what images they want to find, regardless of whether they are current or genuine. The Scots promotion of Scotland as a land of heather, the kilt and whisky confirms this: a dash of truth, a splash of history and a good deal of manufacture and manipulation. The author aims to provide a humorous and thoughtful account of Scottish tourism in all its guises.Alastair J. Durie is an honorary lecturer at Stirling University, UK, and has had a long academic career in teaching, research and administration as lecturer and senior lecturer at various Scottish universities and in North America. His early research was on eighteenth-century Scotland, with books on linen and banking, but over the past twenty years he has made the study of the history of tourism very much his speciality, assisted by awards from the Wellcome Trust and other funding bodies.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781862321212 |
| ISBN 10 | 1862321213 |
| Title | Scotland for the Holidays? |
| Author | Alastair J Durie |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Birlinn General |
| Year published | 2003-05-19 |
| Number of pages | 282 |
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