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100	1		_aAsa, Berger, Arthur, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aSmooth Sailing : _bAn Ethnographic and Socio-semiotic Analysis of Tourism and Ocean Cruising / _cArthur Asa Berger.
246	3		_aAn Ethnographic and Socio-semiotic Analysis of Tourism and Ocean Cruising
264		1	_aLeiden ; _aBoston : _bBrill, _c2022.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aBrill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences
490	1		_aSocial Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2022.
500			_aWritten in an accessible style, with many photographs and drawings by the author, Smooth Sailing provides an ethnographically informed introduction to the nature of tourism and an important aspect of tourism, ocean cruising.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aAbstract -- Keywords -- 1. Preface -- 2. Introduction -- 2.1 Overtourism -- 2.2 Kinds of Tourists -- 3. Aspects of Travel and Tourism -- 3.1 Tourism as a Form of Consumption -- 3.2 Tourism as a Cultural Phenomenon -- 4. Tourists and Travelers -- 4.1 Travelers and Mythology -- 4.2 Travel and Myth -- 4.3 The Myth Mode and Travel/Tourism -- 4.4 What is Travel? -- 4.5 Are Tourists Travelers? -- 4.6 Erik Cohen’s Typology of Tourists -- 4.7 Are There Important Differences Between Tourists and Travelers? -- 4.8 Tourists as Continual Spenders -- 4.9 Explorers, Settlers, Travelers, and Tourists -- 4.10 Stanley Plog on Different Kinds of Tourists -- 4.11 China Tour -- 4.12 Tourists Take Trips -- 4.13 Tourist Meccas -- 4.14 Uses and Gratifications of Tourism -- 4.15 Tourism and the Consumption Imperative -- 4.16 The Four Consumer Cultures and Tourism Preferences -- 4.17 The Search for authenticity -- 4.18 In Quest of the Exotic -- 4.19 Travel as a Rite of Passage for Young Men and Women -- 4.20 An Imaginary Image That Explains Things -- 5. The Mindset of the Traveler -- 5.1 Travelers as Risk Takers -- 5.2 Travelers as Strangers -- 5.3 Travel Fueled by Nostalgia -- 5.4 Travel and Ambivalence Towards Modernity -- 5.5 Travel as a Means of Personal Transformation -- 6. Notes on Ocean Cruising -- 6.1 Aren’t Crises Boring? -- 6.2 Social Class and Cruising -- 6.3 Statistics on the Cruise Industry -- 6.4 Main Dining Room Menu on Princess Cruises -- 7. Cruising and the Psyche -- 7.1 A Psychoanalytic Approach to Cruising -- 7.2 Come Back New -- 7.3 Cruising and the Carnivalesque -- 7.4 Cruising and Addiction -- 7.5 Cruising and Quantum Experiences -- 8. Princess Cruises: A Case Study -- 8.1 A Cruise Critics Review of the Grand Princess -- 8.2 The Grand Princess Alaska Cruise -- 8.3 Two Splurges -- 9. Coda -- 9.1 The UNWTO on Tourism -- 9.2 How I Wrote This Book -- References.
520			_aWritten in an accessible style, with many photographs of important tourist sites and drawings by the author, Smooth Sailing provides an ethnographically informed introduction to the nature of tourism and an important aspect of tourism, ocean cruising. The book discusses topics such as the nature of tourism, different kinds of tourists, the role that myths play in tourism, gratifications from tourism, and travel as a means of personal transformation. It also deals with ocean cruising and considers the notion that cruises are boring, social class and cruising, cruising and addiction, and cruising and the psyche.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aMan-woman relationships.
650		0	_aRomance fiction.
650		0	_aSailing.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tSmooth Sailing : An Ethnographic and Socio-semiotic Analysis of Tourism and Ocean Cruising. _dLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022 _z9789004506275 _w(DLC) 2022016101
830		0	_aBrill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences.
830		0	_aSocial Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2022.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004506268
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