The Sociology of Tourism: Theoretical and Empirical InvestigationsYiorgos Apostolopoulos, Stella Leivadi, Andrew Yiannakis The rapid expansion of the tourism industry has provided many economic benefits and affected every facet of contemporary societies including employment, government revenue and cultural manifestations. However, tourism can also be considered a problematic phenomenon, promoting dependency, underdevelopment and adverse sociocultural effects, especially for developing countries. This pioneering work provides a comprehensive review of these complex tourism issues from a sociological perspective. Various theoretical and empirical approaches are introduced and the following issues are discussed: * identifiable and stable forms of touristic behaviour and roles |
Contents
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APPROACHES ISSUES | 44 |
2 | 69 |
MOTIVATION AND ANTICIPATION IN POSTINDUSTRIAL | 75 |
A PHENOMENOLOGY OF TOURIST EXPERIENCES | 90 |
3 | 110 |
Structures of social inequality in the tourism system | 113 |
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD WORLD | 173 |
THE CHANGING ECONOMICS OF THE TOURIST | 193 |
TOURISM AND THE FAMILY IN A RURAL CRETAN | 219 |
THE POLITICIZATION OF TOURISM | 233 |
GENDER AND ECONOMIC INTERESTS IN TOURISM | 265 |
INTERPRETATIONS OF TOURISM AS COMMODITY | 281 |
SOCIOLOGY AND TOURISM | 301 |
ON | 315 |