Tourism is a rapidly growing area of student enrolment. Tourism: An Introduction is a matchless guide to understanding the theory, practice, development and effects of tourism. Tourism: An Introduction: equips students with a critical perspective of the central processes of tourism and the relationship between tourism and culture; places tourism at the heart of modern life rather than as a peripheral feature added on after work; illuminates the relationship between tourism and nation formation, citizenship, consumerism and globalization; reveals the ritual, performative and embodied dimensions of tourist experience.