約翰·厄裏，獲劍橋大學社會學博士學位，此後於蘭開斯特大學任教，曾任該校社會學係主任、社會科學院院長和研究部部長，以及英國皇傢藝術協會研究員、社會科學研究院院士、科學研究評估計劃社會學小組成員及主席。目前擔任蘭開斯大學流動現象研究中心主任。

The original Tourist Gaze was a classic, marking out a new land to study and appreciate. This new edition extends into fresh areas with the same passion and insight of the object. Even more essential reading!' - Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor, Warwick University This new edition of a seminal text restructures, reworks and remakes the groundbreaking previous versions so making this very successful book even more relevant for tourism students, researchers and designers in the new century. The tourist gaze remains an agenda setting theory; here it incorporates new principles and research. Packed full of fascinating insights this major new edition is fresh and contemporary, intelligently broadening its theoretical and geographical scope and providing a nuanced account which responds to various critiques. All chapters have been significantly revised to include up-to-date empirical data, many new case studies and fresh concepts. Three new chapters have been added which explore: * photography and digitization * embodied performances * risks and alternative futures Innovative and informative this book is essential reading for all involved in contemporary tourism, leisure, cultural policy, design, economic regeneration, heritage and the arts.