Susan’s experiences as a solo traveler inspired her fascination with the ways local people have worked to develop one of the oldest tourism industries in the world.
Ottoman Empire Tourism
Susan Nance, “Ottoman Empire Tourism and the American Flag: Patriotic Travel before the Age of Package Tours, 1830-1870,” Journal of Tourism History 1, no. 1
(March 2009): 7-26.
Susan Nance, “A Facilitated Access Model and Ottoman Empire Tourism, 1835-1870,” Annals of Tourism Research 34, no. 4 (October 2007): 1056-1077.
Camp bearing American flag, Palestine, 1848. From William Lynch, Narrative of the United States Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea (1849).
Souvenir sellers at the Church of the
Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, ca. 1880.
Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection,
LC-USZ62-111696, Library of Congress
Dr. Susan Nance History Univ. of Guelph Guelph, ON N1G 2W1 Canada
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