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The sociology of tourism : theoretical and empirical investigations / edited by Yorghos Apostolopoulos, Stella Leivadi and Andrew Yiannakis.

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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, underdevelo...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Leivadi, Stella, Yiannakis, Andrew, Apostolopoulos, Yorghos, 1961-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Series:Routledge advances in tourism ; 1.
Subjects:
Tourism.
Tourism > Sociological aspects.

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505 0 |a Introduction: Reinventing the sociology of tourism / Yiorgos Apostolopoulos. Part I. Towards a sociological understanding of contemporary tourism. Representations of international tourism in the social sciences: sun, sex, sights, savings, and servility / Malcolm Crick -- The sociology of tourism: approaches, issues, and findings / Erik Cohen. Part II. The tourism system and the individual. Motivation and anticipation in post-industrial tourism / Giuli Liebman Parrinello -- A phenomenology of tourist experiences / Erik Cohen -- Part III. Structures of social inequality in the tourism system. Tourism, culture and social inequality / John Urry -- Gender and class relations in tourism employment / Michael Ireland. Part IV. Tourism, underdevelopment and dependency. Tourism, dependency and development: a mode of analysis / Stephen Britton -- Close encounters of the third world / Cecilia A. Karch and G.H.S. Dann. 
505 0 |a Part V. Tourism and social institutions. The changing economics of the tourist industry / John Urry -- Tourism and the family in a rural Cretan community / Maria Kousis -- The Philippines: the politicization of tourism / Linda K. Richter. Part VI. Tourism and social change. Gender and economic interests in tourism prostitution: the nature, development and implications of sex tourism in South-East Asia / C. Michael Hall -- Interpretations of tourism as commodity / G. Llewellyn Watson and Joseph P. Kopachevsky. Part VII. Towards a 'new' sociology of tourism. Sociology and tourism / Graham Dann and Erik Cohen -- Mega-events and micro-modernization: on the sociology of the new urban tourism / Maurice Roche. 
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