期刊名称：Tourismos : An International Multidisciplinary Journal of Tourism
印刷版ISSN：1790-8418
出版年度：2006
卷号：1
期号：01
页码：27-27
出版社：University of the Aegean
摘要：The paper traces the emergence of the tourism market by using instead
of statistics or quantitative data, which are very rare for the period,
alternative sources. It traces the transition from travel writers to travel
guide-books by focusing on the rich literature about Greek travel. It
points to the process of commodification of poetry and literature of the
1800’s as information sources and tools of creating the tourist ‘gaze’,
on the one hand, and to the appearance of the main patterns of the mass
tourist market, on the other. By referring to and analysing the most
widely used travel books of the period (the John Murray and Baedecker Handbooks for Travel) it contrasts them with earlier forms of travel
writing. It points to the process of appropriation of the latter by the new
genre; the passage from a more personal, romantic, literary and direct
style of individual travellers during the early 19th century to a detached,
authoritative and descriptive style at the end of the period. Hypotheses
are formulated about how new institutions and businesses contributed
to creating and propagating the special tourist gaze about Greece, as
well as about the main patterns of mass travel which characterized
visits to Greece during the second half of the 19th century and early 20th
century. By comparing handbooks the paper also draws hypotheses
about the diversification of the market.
