Tourism is more than a collection of business transactions, a

process, or set of impacts. It is a complex assortment of systems

that includes economic, built and natural environments,

ownership patterns, relationships between generating and

receiving countries, and the relationship between the locale in

which tourism takes place and the wider society.

An Introduction to Tourism and Anthropology explains how

anthropology is the window through which tourism dynamics

may be properly analysed and evaluated. Starting with an

overview of the development of anthropology as a social

science, the author moves on to examine:

• the definition and characteristics of tourism

• definitions and typologies of tourists

• tourism and culture

• key themes and writers in the anthropology of tourism

• issues in the anthropology of tourism

• globalisation, tourism and anthropology

• the relationship between development and

underdevelopment theories and the anthropology of tourism

Featuring a wealth of international examples, figures, key

ideas, guides for further reading and end of chapter questions,

this comprehensive book examines the important issues

surrounding tourism’s human impact and reveals that the

dynamic relationship between tourism and culture is not

necessarily a ‘bad thing’.

Peter M.Burns is Head of Tourism and Leisure at the

University of Luton.