Business of Tourism

Philip Scranton is Professor of History at Rutgers University, Camden, and Director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library. His books include Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies and Industrializing Organisms: Introducing Evolutionary History. Janet F. Davidson is Historian at the Cape Fear Museum, Wilmington, North Carolina. She is coauthor of On the Move: Transportation and the American Story.

• Preface-Philip ScrantonPART I: COMMODIFYING PLACEChapter 1: The East as an Exhibit: Thomas Cook & Son and the Origins of the International Tourism Industry In Egypt-Waleed HazbunChapter 2: The Compagnie GÉnÉrale Transatlantique and the Development of Saharan Tourism in North Africa-Kenneth J. PerkinsChapter 3: "Food palaces built of sausages [and] great ships of lamb chops": The Gastronomical Fair of Dijon as Consuming Spectacle-Philip WhalenPART 2: ENGAGING RELIGIONChapter 4: Consuming Simple Gifts: Shakers, Visitors, Goods-Brian BixbyChapter 5: "I Would Much Rather See a Sermon than Hear One": Experiencing Faith at Silver Dollar City-Aaron K. KetchellChapter 6: "Troubles Tourism": Debating History and Voyeurism in Belfast, Northern Ireland-Molly Hurley DÉpretPART 3: MARKETING COMMUNISMChapter 7: "There's No Place Like Home": Soviet Tourism in Late Stalinism-Anne GorsuchChapter 8: Dangerous Liaisons: Soviet-Block Tourists and the Temptations of the Yugoslav Good Life in the 1960s and 1970s-Patrick Hyder PattersonChapter 9: A Means of Last Resort: The European Transformation of the Cuban Hotel Industry and the American Response, 1987-2004-Evan R. WardAfterword-Janet F. DavidsonContributorsAcknowledgmentsIndex