Scotland and Tourism: The Long View, 1700-2015

ISBN-13: 9781032339733 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 144 str.

Alastair J. Durie

Opis

This book brings together work from many periods and perspectives. It draws on a wide range of source material, academic and non-academic, from local studies and general analyses, visitors’ accounts, hotel records, newspaper and journal commentaries, photographs and even cartoons. It reviews arguments over the cultural and economic impact of tou

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List of illustrations

Preface

1 Introduction

2 Tourism reaches Scotland

3 Tourism and transport

4 Forms of tourism

5 Distinctive features of Scottish tourism

6 Growth and fluctuations

7 The balance sheet in economic and cultural terms

8 The past and the future: tourism since 1945

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Alastair J. Durie is an honorary lecturer at Stirling University, UK, and has had a long academic career in teaching, research and administration as lecturer and senior lecturer at various Scottish universities and in North America. His early research was on eighteenth-century Scotland, with books on linen and banking, but over the past twenty years he has made the study of the history of tourism very much his speciality, assisted by awards from the Wellcome Trust and other funding bodies.