Venice, the Tourist Maze
Venice, the Tourist Maze

Author: Robert C. Davis

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2004-06-25

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780520937802

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"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.

Passport's Illustrated Guide To
Passport's Illustrated Guide To

Author: Robert Holmes

Publisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company

Published: 2000-05

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780658005039

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Each guide includes fast facts with an A-to-Z of places of interest and easy-to-read, two-page spreads. Special features include "First Steps" before departure and "Getting Away from It All"Qoff-the-beaten-track pleasures. Also included in each guide are more than 200 color photos and color, detailed maps.

Passport Italy
Passport Italy

Author: Claudia Gioseffi

Publisher: World Trade Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9781885073341

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This pocket guide to business, culture and etiquette is designed for international business people and non-business travelers. This comprehensive reference will help travelers to Italy learn to avoid cultural faux pas and understand the country's values and belief systems. Illustrated.

Passport's Illustrated Travel Guide to Prague
Passport's Illustrated Travel Guide to Prague

Author: Louis James

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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This book gives an introduction to the city-its history, geography, politics, culture. It also offers practical advice on arriving and getting around. You see an alphabetical listing of places to visit, interspersed with walks and tours.

Passport's Illustrated Guide to Caribbean Cruising
Passport's Illustrated Guide to Caribbean Cruising

Author: Thomas Cook

Publisher: Contemporary Books

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780844211763

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A guidebook to vacationing in the Caribbean area which includes information on Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Key West, Florida as well as the entire string of Caribbean islands.