TY - BOOK ID - 93235727 TI - A history of modern tourism PY - 2016 SN - 9780230369641 9780230369658 9780230369665 PB - Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Tourism KW - Tourisme KW - History. KW - Histoire. KW - Tourism. KW - World history KW - anno 1800-1999 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:93235727 AB - Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world, yet leisure travel is more than just economically important. It plays a vital role in defining who we are by helping to place us in space and time. In so doing, it has aesthetic, medical, political, cultural and social implications. However, it hasn't always been so. Tourism as we know it is a surprisingly modern thing, both a product of modernity and a force helping to shape it. ER -