Southern journeys : tourism, history, and culture in the modern south / edited by Richard D. Starnes.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-301) and index.

"A notorious attraction" : sex and tourism in New Orleans, 1897-1917 / Alecia P. Long -- Hillbillies and the Holy Land : the development of tourism in the Arkansas Ozarks / Brooks Blevins -- Developing the Panhandle : Seagrove Beach, Seaside, Watercolor, and the Florida tourist tradition / Harvey H. Jackson III -- Public and private tourism development in 1930s Appalachia : the Blue Ridge Parkway meets Little Switzerland / Anne Mitchell Whisnant -- Making "America's most interesting city" : tourism and the construction of cultural image in New Orleans, 1940-1984 / J. Mark Souther -- Creating a "variety vacationland" : tourism development in North Carolina, 1930-1990 / Richard D. Starnes -- From millionaires to the masses : tourism at Jekyll Island, Georgia / C. Brenden Martin and June Hall McCash -- Astride the plantation gates : tourism, racial politics, and the development of Hilton Head Island -- Margaret A. Shannon with Stephen W. Taylor -- The road to nowhere : tourism development versus environmentalism in the Great Smoky Mountains / Daniel S. Pierce -- Atlanta's Olympics and the business of tourism / Harvey K. Newman -- Nobody knows the troubles I've seen, but does anyone want to hear about them when they're on vacation? / Ted Ownby.

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The first collection of its kind to examine tourism as a complicated and vital force in southern history, culture, and economics. Anyone who has seen Rock City, wandered the grounds of Graceland, hiked in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, or watched the mermaids swim at Weeki Wachee knows the southern United States offers visitors a rich variety of scenic, cultural, and leisure activities. Tourism has been, and is still, one of the most powerful economic forces in the modern South. It is a multibillion-dollar industry that creates jobs and generates revenue while drawing visitors from aroun.

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