Journal of Tourism History by Eric G. E. Zuelow
I am editor of the Journal of Tourism History, an interdisciplinary journal that publishes histor... more I am editor of the Journal of Tourism History, an interdisciplinary journal that publishes historical work about the history of tourism. The journal is published three times each year by Routledge. If you are a Ph.D. candidate or recently received your degree, be aware that this journal holds an annual competition for the John K. Walton Prize for best article in tourism history by a recent graduate. You will find more information at: https://networks.h-net.org/node/15531/discussions/37193/journal-tourism-history-invites-submissions-john-k-walton-prize
For more information, or to submit an article for consideration, click on the Taylor and Francis link.
Books by Eric G. E. Zuelow
Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world. Yet leisure travel is not just economical... more Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world. Yet leisure travel is not just economically important. This pastime plays a vital role in defining who we are by helping to place us in space and time. In so doing, it has aesthetic, medical, political, cultural, and social implications. It was not always so. Tourism as we know it is a surprisingly modern thing, both a product of modernity and a force helping to shape it. A History of Modern Tourism is the first book to track the origins and evolution of this pursuit from earliest times to the present. From a new understanding of aesthetics to scientific change, from the invention of steam power to the creation of aircraft, from an elite form of education to family car trips to see national “shrines,” this book offers a sweeping and engaging overview of a fascinating story not yet widely known.
". . . a very readable account of how tourism has developed since The Grand Tour of the 18th century. It looks at movers and shakers in the tourism sector - from Thomas Cook and George Pullman to Billy Butlin, Freddie Laker and even Adolf Hitler - and at how the industry has shaped globalisation and the modern world." (Adam Nebbs, South China Morning Post, 1 Nov. 2015)
This book is now available in hardcover, paperback, and electronic formats. http://www.amazon.com/History-Modern-Tourism-Eric-Zuelow/dp/0230369642/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1433518027&sr=8-4&keywords=Zuelow.
Readers may also be interested in the supplementary website which contains bibliographies, lists of websites, teaching materials, and more: http://ericzuelow.com/ModernTourism/About.html
Publisher website: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/a-history-of-modern-tourism-eric-zuelow/?isb=9780230369641
From the dark shadow of civil war to the pastel-painted tourist towns of today, Making Ireland Ir... more From the dark shadow of civil war to the pastel-painted tourist towns of today, Making Ireland Irish provides a sweeping account of the evolution of the Irish tourist industry over the twentieth century. Drawing on an extensive array of previously untapped or underused sources, Eric G. E. Zuelow examines how a small group of tourism advocates, inspired by tourist development movements in countries such as France and Spain, worked tirelessly to convince their Irish compatriots that tourism was the secret to Ireland’s success. Over time, tourism went from being a national joke to a national interest. Men and women from across Irish society joined in, eager to help shape their country and culture for visitors’ eyes. The result was Ireland as it is depicted today, a land of blue skies, smiling faces, pastel towns, natural beauty, ancient history, and timeless traditions.
With lucid prose and vivid detail, Zuelow explains how careful planning transformed Irish towns and villages from grey and unattractive to bright and inviting, sanitized Irish history to avoid offending Ireland’s largest tourist market, the English, and supplanted traditional rural fairs revolving around muddy animals and featuring sexually suggestive ceremonies with new family-friendly festivals and events filling the tourist calendar today. By challenging existing notions that the Irish tourist product is either timeless or the consequence of colonialism, Zuelow demonstrates that the development of tourist imagery and Irish national identity was not the result of a handful of elites or a postcolonial legacy, but rather the product of an extended discussion that ultimately involved a broad cross-section of society, both inside and outside Ireland. Tourism, he argues, played a vital role in "making Ireland Irish."
When tourists travel, they often seek the exotic. The further they venture, the more unique the c... more When tourists travel, they often seek the exotic. The further they venture, the more unique the cultures they gaze upon, the greater the prestige accrued; cross-cultural contact is commonplace. Yet despite the obviously transnational character of the tourist experience, national borders define existing studies of tourism. Spanish, French, or German tourism is treated almost in isolation and there are only hints of a larger transnational impetus behind the creation of national tourism products.
This volume tells a different story. Although modern tourism first evolved in Europe changes were never confined to national borders. The Grand Tour, the birthplace of modern tourism, was consummately transnational in both its execution and its influence. Although seaside resorts originated in Britain, the aesthetic and scientific ideas that made beaches desirable emerged through conversation among Dutch painters, English travellers, and both British and Continental scientists and philosophers. When travel was finally available to the masses, Irish tourism advocates looked to England, Continental Europe, and America for ideas. The Nazi leisure organization, Strength through Joy (KdF), was based on an earlier Italian model, the Dopolavoro. World's Fair promoters raided previous fairs in other countries for ideas. European-wide demand and taste helped shape nudist practice in France and beyond. At every turn, practices and products developed because tourism lent itself to trans-national discourse.
The contributors examine a wide range of topics that together make a powerful argument for the adoption of a new transnational model for understanding modern tourism. An essential addition to the library of academics studying the history of tourism, popular culture and leisure in Europe, the book will also provide interest to scholars of transnational topics, including Europeanization and globalization.
Contents:
The necessity of crossing borders: an introduction, Eric G.E. Zuelow
Seaside resorts and international tourism, John K. Walton
The 'naked city' of Cap d'Agde: European nudism and tourism in postwar France, Stephen L. Harp
From Alpine tourism to the 'alpinization' of tourism, Laurent Tissot
'Come to the fair': transgressing boundaries in World's Fairs tourism, Angela Schwarz
From 'Paris of the East' to 'Queen of the Danube': international models in the promotion of Budapest tourism, 1885–1940, Alexander Vari
Place like any other?: publicity, hotels and the search for a French path to tourism, Patrick Young
Made in Ireland?: Irish tourism in an international context, Eric G.E. Zuelow
The Cold War, mass tourism and the drive to meet world standards at East Berlin's TV Tower information center, Michelle Standley
Building tourism in one country?: the Sovietization of vacationing, 1917–41, Christian Noack
'Tourism and autarky are conceptually incompatible': international tourism conferences in the Third Reich, Kristin Semmens
Reviews: 'The essays in this volume are well-written, well-structured and solidly researched, consistently interesting, and richly textured, particularly regarding the paradox of defining the nation while addressing transnational discussions.'
Shelley Baranowski, University of Akron, USA
This collection of essays brings together scholars of Irish and Scottish tourism history to chart... more This collection of essays brings together scholars of Irish and Scottish tourism history to chart a new comparative direction in research. The long-standing cultural exchanges, economic linkages, and flows of people between Ulster and Scotland included, from the nineteenth century, extensive recreational travel across the North Channel. At the same time, cities, resorts, and tourist sites in each place vied for the tourist’s pound in the lucrative English market. Ulster and Scotland boasted a number of comparable sites – indeed Staffa and the Giant’s Causeway were often seen as part of a single ‘site’, and Co. Donegal was promoted to tourists as the ‘Irish Highlands’ – while numerous resort towns catered to heavy cross-channel traffic between the two places. Indeed, for some, Ulster and Scotland constituted a single regional tourist economy; for others, the two locations were fierce competitors.
This collection includes overviews of each tourism sector, specific case studies that suggest the value of comparison, and several studies that examine institutional and even infrastructural linkages. Through these combined approaches, it shows that tracing the historical development of, and connections between, tourism in Ulster and Scotland yields important insights into the character of tourist development, and suggests the value of adopting a new spatial framework for exploring tourism history.
This volume makes a unique contribution to the literature on nations and nationalism by examining... more This volume makes a unique contribution to the literature on nations and nationalism by examining why nations remain a vibrant and strong social cohesive despite the threat of globalization.
Regardless of predictions forecasting the demise of the nation-state in the global era, the nation persists as an important source of identity, community, and collective memory for most of the world's population. More than simply a corrective to the many scholarly but premature epitaphs for the nation-state, this book explains the continued health of nations in the face of looming threats. The contributors include leading experts in the field, such as Anthony D. Smith, William Safran, Edward Tiryakian as well as younger scholars, whom adopt a variety of approaches ranging from theoretical to empirical and historical to sociological, in order to uncover both the reasons that nations continue to remain vital and the mechanisms that help perpetuate them. The book includes case studies on Ireland, Thailand, Poland, the Baltic States, Croatia and Jordan.
Papers by Eric G. E. Zuelow
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Page 205. Chapter 10 The Tourism Nexus: National Identity and the Meanings of Tourism Since the I... more Page 205. Chapter 10 The Tourism Nexus: National Identity and the Meanings of Tourism Since the Irish Civil War Eric GE Zuelow Introduction Irish tourism has never been as simple as the coloniser-created images suggested by some post-colonial theorists (Thompson, 2000). ...
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Journal of Tourism History by Eric G. E. Zuelow
For more information, or to submit an article for consideration, click on the Taylor and Francis link.
Books by Eric G. E. Zuelow
". . . a very readable account of how tourism has developed since The Grand Tour of the 18th century. It looks at movers and shakers in the tourism sector - from Thomas Cook and George Pullman to Billy Butlin, Freddie Laker and even Adolf Hitler - and at how the industry has shaped globalisation and the modern world." (Adam Nebbs, South China Morning Post, 1 Nov. 2015)
This book is now available in hardcover, paperback, and electronic formats. http://www.amazon.com/History-Modern-Tourism-Eric-Zuelow/dp/0230369642/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1433518027&sr=8-4&keywords=Zuelow.
Readers may also be interested in the supplementary website which contains bibliographies, lists of websites, teaching materials, and more: http://ericzuelow.com/ModernTourism/About.html
Publisher website: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/a-history-of-modern-tourism-eric-zuelow/?isb=9780230369641
With lucid prose and vivid detail, Zuelow explains how careful planning transformed Irish towns and villages from grey and unattractive to bright and inviting, sanitized Irish history to avoid offending Ireland’s largest tourist market, the English, and supplanted traditional rural fairs revolving around muddy animals and featuring sexually suggestive ceremonies with new family-friendly festivals and events filling the tourist calendar today. By challenging existing notions that the Irish tourist product is either timeless or the consequence of colonialism, Zuelow demonstrates that the development of tourist imagery and Irish national identity was not the result of a handful of elites or a postcolonial legacy, but rather the product of an extended discussion that ultimately involved a broad cross-section of society, both inside and outside Ireland. Tourism, he argues, played a vital role in "making Ireland Irish."
This volume tells a different story. Although modern tourism first evolved in Europe changes were never confined to national borders. The Grand Tour, the birthplace of modern tourism, was consummately transnational in both its execution and its influence. Although seaside resorts originated in Britain, the aesthetic and scientific ideas that made beaches desirable emerged through conversation among Dutch painters, English travellers, and both British and Continental scientists and philosophers. When travel was finally available to the masses, Irish tourism advocates looked to England, Continental Europe, and America for ideas. The Nazi leisure organization, Strength through Joy (KdF), was based on an earlier Italian model, the Dopolavoro. World's Fair promoters raided previous fairs in other countries for ideas. European-wide demand and taste helped shape nudist practice in France and beyond. At every turn, practices and products developed because tourism lent itself to trans-national discourse.
The contributors examine a wide range of topics that together make a powerful argument for the adoption of a new transnational model for understanding modern tourism. An essential addition to the library of academics studying the history of tourism, popular culture and leisure in Europe, the book will also provide interest to scholars of transnational topics, including Europeanization and globalization.
Contents:
The necessity of crossing borders: an introduction, Eric G.E. Zuelow
Seaside resorts and international tourism, John K. Walton
The 'naked city' of Cap d'Agde: European nudism and tourism in postwar France, Stephen L. Harp
From Alpine tourism to the 'alpinization' of tourism, Laurent Tissot
'Come to the fair': transgressing boundaries in World's Fairs tourism, Angela Schwarz
From 'Paris of the East' to 'Queen of the Danube': international models in the promotion of Budapest tourism, 1885–1940, Alexander Vari
Place like any other?: publicity, hotels and the search for a French path to tourism, Patrick Young
Made in Ireland?: Irish tourism in an international context, Eric G.E. Zuelow
The Cold War, mass tourism and the drive to meet world standards at East Berlin's TV Tower information center, Michelle Standley
Building tourism in one country?: the Sovietization of vacationing, 1917–41, Christian Noack
'Tourism and autarky are conceptually incompatible': international tourism conferences in the Third Reich, Kristin Semmens
Reviews: 'The essays in this volume are well-written, well-structured and solidly researched, consistently interesting, and richly textured, particularly regarding the paradox of defining the nation while addressing transnational discussions.'
Shelley Baranowski, University of Akron, USA
This collection includes overviews of each tourism sector, specific case studies that suggest the value of comparison, and several studies that examine institutional and even infrastructural linkages. Through these combined approaches, it shows that tracing the historical development of, and connections between, tourism in Ulster and Scotland yields important insights into the character of tourist development, and suggests the value of adopting a new spatial framework for exploring tourism history.
Regardless of predictions forecasting the demise of the nation-state in the global era, the nation persists as an important source of identity, community, and collective memory for most of the world's population. More than simply a corrective to the many scholarly but premature epitaphs for the nation-state, this book explains the continued health of nations in the face of looming threats. The contributors include leading experts in the field, such as Anthony D. Smith, William Safran, Edward Tiryakian as well as younger scholars, whom adopt a variety of approaches ranging from theoretical to empirical and historical to sociological, in order to uncover both the reasons that nations continue to remain vital and the mechanisms that help perpetuate them. The book includes case studies on Ireland, Thailand, Poland, the Baltic States, Croatia and Jordan.
Papers by Eric G. E. Zuelow
For more information, or to submit an article for consideration, click on the Taylor and Francis link.
". . . a very readable account of how tourism has developed since The Grand Tour of the 18th century. It looks at movers and shakers in the tourism sector - from Thomas Cook and George Pullman to Billy Butlin, Freddie Laker and even Adolf Hitler - and at how the industry has shaped globalisation and the modern world." (Adam Nebbs, South China Morning Post, 1 Nov. 2015)
This book is now available in hardcover, paperback, and electronic formats. http://www.amazon.com/History-Modern-Tourism-Eric-Zuelow/dp/0230369642/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1433518027&sr=8-4&keywords=Zuelow.
Readers may also be interested in the supplementary website which contains bibliographies, lists of websites, teaching materials, and more: http://ericzuelow.com/ModernTourism/About.html
Publisher website: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/a-history-of-modern-tourism-eric-zuelow/?isb=9780230369641
With lucid prose and vivid detail, Zuelow explains how careful planning transformed Irish towns and villages from grey and unattractive to bright and inviting, sanitized Irish history to avoid offending Ireland’s largest tourist market, the English, and supplanted traditional rural fairs revolving around muddy animals and featuring sexually suggestive ceremonies with new family-friendly festivals and events filling the tourist calendar today. By challenging existing notions that the Irish tourist product is either timeless or the consequence of colonialism, Zuelow demonstrates that the development of tourist imagery and Irish national identity was not the result of a handful of elites or a postcolonial legacy, but rather the product of an extended discussion that ultimately involved a broad cross-section of society, both inside and outside Ireland. Tourism, he argues, played a vital role in "making Ireland Irish."
This volume tells a different story. Although modern tourism first evolved in Europe changes were never confined to national borders. The Grand Tour, the birthplace of modern tourism, was consummately transnational in both its execution and its influence. Although seaside resorts originated in Britain, the aesthetic and scientific ideas that made beaches desirable emerged through conversation among Dutch painters, English travellers, and both British and Continental scientists and philosophers. When travel was finally available to the masses, Irish tourism advocates looked to England, Continental Europe, and America for ideas. The Nazi leisure organization, Strength through Joy (KdF), was based on an earlier Italian model, the Dopolavoro. World's Fair promoters raided previous fairs in other countries for ideas. European-wide demand and taste helped shape nudist practice in France and beyond. At every turn, practices and products developed because tourism lent itself to trans-national discourse.
The contributors examine a wide range of topics that together make a powerful argument for the adoption of a new transnational model for understanding modern tourism. An essential addition to the library of academics studying the history of tourism, popular culture and leisure in Europe, the book will also provide interest to scholars of transnational topics, including Europeanization and globalization.
Contents:
The necessity of crossing borders: an introduction, Eric G.E. Zuelow
Seaside resorts and international tourism, John K. Walton
The 'naked city' of Cap d'Agde: European nudism and tourism in postwar France, Stephen L. Harp
From Alpine tourism to the 'alpinization' of tourism, Laurent Tissot
'Come to the fair': transgressing boundaries in World's Fairs tourism, Angela Schwarz
From 'Paris of the East' to 'Queen of the Danube': international models in the promotion of Budapest tourism, 1885–1940, Alexander Vari
Place like any other?: publicity, hotels and the search for a French path to tourism, Patrick Young
Made in Ireland?: Irish tourism in an international context, Eric G.E. Zuelow
The Cold War, mass tourism and the drive to meet world standards at East Berlin's TV Tower information center, Michelle Standley
Building tourism in one country?: the Sovietization of vacationing, 1917–41, Christian Noack
'Tourism and autarky are conceptually incompatible': international tourism conferences in the Third Reich, Kristin Semmens
Reviews: 'The essays in this volume are well-written, well-structured and solidly researched, consistently interesting, and richly textured, particularly regarding the paradox of defining the nation while addressing transnational discussions.'
Shelley Baranowski, University of Akron, USA
This collection includes overviews of each tourism sector, specific case studies that suggest the value of comparison, and several studies that examine institutional and even infrastructural linkages. Through these combined approaches, it shows that tracing the historical development of, and connections between, tourism in Ulster and Scotland yields important insights into the character of tourist development, and suggests the value of adopting a new spatial framework for exploring tourism history.
Regardless of predictions forecasting the demise of the nation-state in the global era, the nation persists as an important source of identity, community, and collective memory for most of the world's population. More than simply a corrective to the many scholarly but premature epitaphs for the nation-state, this book explains the continued health of nations in the face of looming threats. The contributors include leading experts in the field, such as Anthony D. Smith, William Safran, Edward Tiryakian as well as younger scholars, whom adopt a variety of approaches ranging from theoretical to empirical and historical to sociological, in order to uncover both the reasons that nations continue to remain vital and the mechanisms that help perpetuate them. The book includes case studies on Ireland, Thailand, Poland, the Baltic States, Croatia and Jordan.
This lecture is available in video form at: http://www.une.edu/cgh/video/archive.cfm?vid=94A82E02-ABD8-DF2A-EDA9B732C6D9B47C