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Theoretical Advances in the Sociological Treatment of Tourism
Theoretical Advances in the Sociological Treatment of Tourism
Although there has been some debate as to the origins of tourism or proto-tourism (cf. Nash, 1979; 1981), the majority view is that tourism is a comparatively late phenomenon coinciding with the industrial age of rationalism and modernity. The academic study of tourism is even more recent, originating, as it did, in the 1930s (von Wiese, 1930), but not gathering momentum until it began to be treated by such well-known figures as Barthes, Baudrillard, Enzensberger, Knebel, Krapf, Morin and Riesman.
With the exception of a special issue of the French journal Communications in 1967, featuring contributors such as Burgelin, Gritti and Laurent, studies of two to three decades ago were quite ...
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