The Sociology of Tourism
Feb 23, 2016
The Sociology of Tourism
The Sociology of Tourism
• Motivations
• Roles
• Relationships
• Institutions
• Impacts
"temporary visitors staying at least twenty-four hours in the country visited and the purpose of whose journey can be classified under one
of the following headings: (a) leisure (recreation, holiday, health, study, religion and sport); (b) business (family mission, meeting)"
Tourism as commercialized hospitality
Tourism as democratized travel
Tourism as a modern leisure activity
Tourism as a modern variety of the traditional pilgrimage
Tourism as an expression of basic cultural themes
Tourism as an acculturative process
Tourism as a type of ethnic relations
Tourism as a form of neocolonialism