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Italy : a regional review
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ISBN: 1280562498 9786613597779 1906884617 Year: 2012 Publisher: : Goodfellow Publishers Ltd,

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Contemporary Tourism Reviews will provide you with critical, state-of-the-art surveys of all of the major areas of tourism study to people who are coming to a topic for the first time. The CTR series provides accessible and structured overviews to all areas of research in the broadly defined subject of tourism with links to original sources of information, sites, books and journals as well as a complete glossary of terms, allowing the reader to research as deeply as they wish. Available instantly as downloads, each review provides the equivalent of 30-40 printed pages in an interactive PDF for


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Paesaggi, territori, culture: Viaggio nei luoghi e nelle memorie del Parco del Ticino
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ISBN: 9788820510022 8820510022 Year: 2010 Volume: 116 Publisher: Milano Cisalpino


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From Pompeii : the afterlife of a Roman town
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ISBN: 0674416538 067441652X 9780674416529 9780674047938 0674047931 0674088093 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press,

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When Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, the force of the explosion blew the top right off the mountain, burying nearby Pompeii in a shower of volcanic ash. Ironically, the calamity that proved so lethal for Pompeii's inhabitants preserved the city for centuries, leaving behind a snapshot of Roman daily life that has captured the imagination of generations. The experience of Pompeii always reflects a particular time and sensibility, says Ingrid Rowland. From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town explores the fascinating variety of these different experiences, as described by the artists, writers, actors, and others who have toured the excavated site. The city's houses, temples, gardens--and traces of Vesuvius's human victims--have elicited responses ranging from awe to embarrassment, with shifting cultural tastes playing an important role. The erotic frescoes that appalled eighteenth-century viewers inspired Renoir to change the way he painted. For Freud, visiting Pompeii was as therapeutic as a session of psychoanalysis. Crown Prince Hirohito, arriving in the Bay of Naples by battleship, found Pompeii interesting, but Vesuvius, to his eyes, was just an ugly version of Mount Fuji. Rowland treats readers to the distinctive, often quirky responses of visitors ranging from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain to Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman. Interwoven throughout a narrative lush with detail and insight is the thread of Rowland's own impressions of Pompeii, where she has returned many times since first visiting in 1962.

Venice, the tourist maze
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ISBN: 9786612763021 1282763024 1597349755 1417545062 0520937805 9780520937802 0520238036 9780520238039 0520241207 9780520241206 9781417545063 9781597349758 Year: 2004 Publisher: Berkeley

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"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 in the late Middle Ages to its emergence as a form of mass entertainment in our time, the authors explore what happens when today's "industrial tourism" collides with an ancient and ever-more-fragile culture. Giving equal consideration to those who tour Venice and those who live there, their book affords rare insight into just what it is that the touring and the toured see, experience, and elicit from each other.

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Tourism - Italy - Venice - History. --- Tourism - Social aspects. --- Travelers - Italy - Venice - History. --- Venice (Italy) - Description and travel. --- Venice (Italy)-- Description and travel. --- Travelers --- Tourism --- Italy --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- History --- Venice (Italy) --- Description and travel. --- Holiday industry --- Operators, Tour (Industry) --- Tour operators (Industry) --- Tourism industry --- Tourism operators (Industry) --- Tourist industry --- Tourist trade --- Tourist traffic --- Travel industry --- Visitor industry --- Travellers --- Voyagers --- Wayfarers --- Economic aspects --- Description --- History. --- Service industries --- National tourism organizations --- Travel --- Persons --- Voyages and travels --- HISTORY. --- History & Archaeology. --- Italy. --- Regions & Countries - Europe. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Toerisme. --- Tourism. --- Travel. --- Travelers. --- Sociology --- Urban. --- Venetië (stad). --- anthropology. --- city life. --- contemporary tourism. --- crowded cities. --- cultural assessment. --- cultural critique. --- cultural ethnography. --- ethnographers. --- europe. --- industrial tourism. --- intellectual. --- italian tourism. --- italy. --- local perspective. --- middle ages. --- nonfiction. --- social issues. --- tourism entertainment. --- tourism guide. --- tourism history. --- tourism industry. --- tourist destination. --- tourist experiences. --- tourists. --- venetian culture. --- venetian tourism. --- venetians. --- venice.

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