Book description
The Holiday Makers is thought-provoking and profound in its analysis of the present and future patterns of work and leisure.The author analyses the different forms of tourism, examines the effects on the indigenous countries and their people, and outlines positive steps to reconcile people's holiday requirements with the world's economic and social structures.
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One The Model of Life in Industrial Society Work – Home – Free Time – Travel
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Part Two The Holiday Machine or: The Recreation Cycle
- 4 The motives of the mobile leisureman – travel between norm, promise and hope
- 5 Behaviour and experiences while travelling
- 6 The host population – what they expect and what they get from tourism
- 7 The encounter between tourists and locals
- 8 The return and the feedback
- 9 Indications for a more critical understanding of tourism
- Part Three For a Humanization of Everyday Life
- Part Four Proposals for the Humanization of Travel
- References
- Index
Product information
- Title: Holiday Makers
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2010
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781136357541
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