Tourism, Culture and Development

Reviews / Votes

Stroma Cole's book is path-breaking in its approach, readability and ethnographic neutrality. * Tej Vir Singh, Tourism Recreation Research 34(1) 2009 * I can attest that this book offers a valuable corrective to the macro-analyses that so dominate the tourism literature. Dr. Cole's micro-level longitudinal study is not only sensitively-written, but extremely astute. It resonates with so many themes I observed during my own fieldwork on tourism and cultural transformations in Toraja, Indonesia. I can envision it will become a much used ethnography of tourism in courses on the anthropology of tourism, as well as in tourism management training sessions. Southeast Asianists will also find it of value as a course text for their classes. The beauty of the book is not only its intelligence, but its wonderful accessibility to general readers. * Kathleen M. Adams, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology, Loyola University Chicago * Although the book is a monograph, it relates clearly and closely to the key ideas about anthropology and globalisation, and therefore is a worthwhile read for the non anthropologist as well as the subject specialist. * Jim Butcher (Canterbury UK) * This is an empirically rich text with a lot of insights generally relevant for tourism in developing nations. * Prof Christoph Antweiler (Germany) * An insightful, balanced ethnography of tourism as a particular type of meeting ground where hopes and expectations are only partially satisfied. A valuable book. Recommended. * Choice, October 2008. O. Pi-Sunyer, emeritus, University of Massachusetts at Amherst *