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JOURNAL OF TOURISM AND CULTURAL CHANGE 99 conceptual vectors that would hold them together. Given the current length, the text could have expanded with a more forceful, descriptive, and plain language representation of its theoretical grist. Any expanded explanation could have integrated the impact of socio-cultural meanings of national parks on the author’s experience. As a recommendation, if you have an interest in tourism to the national parks or care about the way visitors interact with park landscapes – as I do – these interests alone will not sustain your engagement with the book. There is an undue burden on readers to synthesize and build a coherent narrative from the text. However, the book may be useful for scholars interested in tourism and culture who also have a strong proclivity for semiotics. William Stewart Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign wstewart@illinois.edu © 2016 William Stewart https://doi.org/10.1080/14766825.2016.1193265 Tourism and humor, by Philip L. Pearce and Anja Pabel, Bristol, Channel View Publications, 2015, 167 pp., US$49.95 (paperback), ISBN-13:978-1-84541-508-2 The work by Pierce and Pabel contributes to the knowledge on humor by rediscovering its fea- tures through the medium of tourism. The uniqueness of this book lies