Travel & Tourism: Critical Perspectives ((4 Credits))

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This course explores tourism, one of the world’s largest and fastest growing industries, from an anthropological perspective. We will examine consequences of international tourism from the perspectives of the tourist and the host. The course examines the impact and sustainability of different types of tourism and tourist sites. Focusing on a variety of global cultures, we will analyze the processes of shaping and marketing distinctive features of culture, identity, history and nature for tourist consumption and the implications of this growing type of global encounter. This course was previously SOC-283244 Travel and Tourism: A Critical Perspective.