Format: Hardback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9789185509355
Pub Date: 07 Jun 2010
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
Illustrations: colour & b/w illus
Description:
Recent years have seen a rapidly growing hotel business built around health and well-being. Leisurely experiences are packaged, staged and consumed as commercial commodities - the tourist complexes have become part of the so called "cultural economy". In the book, ethnologist Tom O'Dell uses spas to highlight the manner in which the culturalisation of the economy has developed.