ABSTRACT
Cities are attractions for both tourists and instrum ental travelers. However, for a long tim e, it has been taken for granted that cities, especially industrial cities, are prim arily destinations for instrum ental travelers, and of far less in terest to tourists, especially holiday tourists. As a result, while cities are actually m ajor destinations for many tourists, their touristic functions have been underacknowledged in theory. The city has been dom inated by a rom anticist bias or “way of seeing” (Berger 1972) that has stressed the dark side of urban m odernity and depreciated the touristic significance of cities. Although such a situation has begun to change in relation to the discourse on the arrival of the post-industrial age in which tourism and service play an unprecedented role (e.g. Bramwell and Rawdding 1996, Law 1993, Page 1995, Roche 1992), urban tourism still awaits paradigmatic or post-rom anticist shifts. This chapter is an attem pt to urge academic efforts in reaching this goal.
