Venice, the Tourist Maze: A Cultural Critique of the World's Most Touristed City

by Robert Con Davis, Garry R. Marvin, Robert C. Davis

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520241207
• ISBN13: 9780520241206
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"