Download or read book Tourism and Visual Culture Methods and cases written by Peter M. Burns and published by CABI. This book was released on 2010 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of tourism as a complex social phenomenon, beyond simply business, is increasing in importance. Providing an examination of perceptions of culture and society in tourism destinations through the tourist's eyes, this book discusses how destinations were, and are, created and perceived through the 'lens' of the tourist's gaze.