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Dislocations of empire: colonies de vacances and estivage in Protectorate Morocco, 1912–1956 Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Patrick Young
This article considers the origins and evolution of colonies de vacances and childhood and youth estivage (summer leisure) in Morocco, over the lifespan of the French Protectorate. It will show how...
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Motor travel in Mozambique in the late 1920s and conquering space: reading Rufino’s photographic albums Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2024-02-15 João Sarmento
The rise of the automobile played a significant role in the transformation of how we see and experience landscapes. Likewise, motor cars were key to defining the shape of twentieth-century tourism....
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Looking forward via historic travel and looking back via heritage tourism: an analysis of roads, mobility and imagination of place along the Tōkaidō Road in Edo Period, Japan Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2024-02-15 David J. Telfer, Atsuko Hashimoto
The Tōkaidō Road was the legendary highway constructed during the Edo period (1603–1868) in Japan connecting Edo, the home of the shogun, to Kyoto, the home of the emperor. Along the route were 53 ...
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The wages of luxury: Sardinia’s Costa Smeralda resort as iconic brand and political symbol (1960–1975) Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Dario Gaggio
The 1960s in Italy saw an explosion in mass tourism but also the development of contested forms of luxury tourism. This article deals with the building of one of the most iconic luxury resorts of t...
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‘Scenery’ and the origins of heritage preservation in New Zealand and Australia Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Kynan Gentry
In explaining the modern rise of interest in historic sites and their preservation, tourism has typically been seen as a lesser influence, or worse, as a corrupting influence on the ‘real’ role of ...
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Guides of the Atlas: an Ethnography of publicness, transnational cooperation and mountain tourism in Morocco Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Stacy E. Holden
Published in Journal of Tourism History (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2024)
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Making a modern marketing machine: the New South Wales Government Tourist Bureau, 1905–1914 Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Josh Woodward
This article explores the promotion of the Blue Mountains by the NSW Tourist Bureau from the organisation's formation in 1905 to the beginning of the First World War in 1914. It draws on archival m...
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The evolution of tourism in the Algarve as depicted in Manuel da Fonseca's Algarvian Chronicles Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Sílvia Quinteiro, Ana Cláudia Salgueiro Silva
Journalist, writer and poet Manuel da Fonseca departed Lisbon for the Algarve in August 1968. He was tasked with writing a set of chronicles about the region for the newspaper A Capital. The chroni...
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The emotional economy of holidaymaking. Health, pleasure, and class in Britain, 1870–1918 Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Christian Noack
Published in Journal of Tourism History (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2023)
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Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Freya Higgins-Desbiolles
Published in Journal of Tourism History (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2024)
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Luxury and gay identity in Sitges: memory, tourism and carnival Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Oscar Guasch, Josep María Mesquida, Jordi Caïs
This article analyses the Spanish seaside resort of Sitges and its historical identity as a destination for gay tourism. The article focuses on the contribution of the carnival to the construction ...
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‘An Oriental Holiday’: constructing Bosnia and Herzegovina as a destination in British tourist literature, c. 1890–1914 Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Ross Cameron
This article challenges imagological historiography that contends Bosnia-Herzegovina represented a no-go zone for British tourists before the First World War because of its reputation for cultural ...
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Selling Black Brazil: race, nation, and visual culture in Salvador, Bahia Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Sarah Sarzynski
Published in Journal of Tourism History (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2023)
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Making Muskoka: tourism, rural identity, and sustainability, 1870–1920 Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Dale Barbour
Published in Journal of Tourism History (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2023)
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License to travel: A cultural history of the passport Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-11-05 Waleed Hazbun
Published in Journal of Tourism History (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2024)
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Unpacked: a history of Caribbean tourism Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Julio Capó Jr.
Published in Journal of Tourism History (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2024)
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Lost on the Freedom Trail: The National Park Service and Urban Renewal in Postwar Boston Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-09-03 Silke Geven
Published in Journal of Tourism History (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2023)
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The Soviet passport Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Craig Robertson
Published in Journal of Tourism History (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2023)
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Useful things in the landscape: the Sulphur Bathhouse and inn at Kedleston, Derbyshire, 1760–1900 Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Peter Collinge
In comparison to larger English spa resorts like Bath, Buxton and Cheltenham, the commercial development of minor spas is an under-represented area in scholarship. Yet, they proliferated in the eig...
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Configuring the northern coast of Spain as a privileged tourist enclave: the cities of San Sebastián and Santander, 1902–1931 Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Carmen Gil-de-Arriba, Carlos Larrinaga
ABSTRACT This paper is a contribution to the international history of tourism concentrating on Spain and more precisely on the specific tourist region of the northern coast, the Cantabrian Cornice. The central-eastern sector of the northern Spanish coast, which followed a pattern somewhat similar to other European locales, notably Brighton and Biarritz, became an elite tourist area and one of the earliest
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‘A land made fit for tourists’: Thomas Cook, tourism promotion, and colonial development in Iraq, 1920–1932 Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Laith Shakir
ABSTRACT This article focuses on the British travel firm Thomas Cook & Son's operations in Iraq, threading together the histories of antiquities-focused tourism and development from the country's establishment as a League of Nations Mandate in 1920 through its independence in 1932. It situates the firm's rhetoric within two principles undergirding mandate-era colonial development: development of the
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Historia económica del turismo en España (1820–2020). De los viajes románticos al pasaporte COVID Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Carlos Larrinaga
Published in Journal of Tourism History (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2023)
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Editorial Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Bertram Gordon
Published in Journal of Tourism History (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2023)
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Cultural heritage and tourism in the nineteenth century: a study of Polish guidebooks Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Dominik Ziarkowski
ABSTRACT Travel guidebooks are often rich with information concerning cultural heritage. This paper discusses the results of research concerning the historical and artistic content of Polish guidebooks published during the nineteenth century. This research covers both the textual content of these publications as well as the illustrations included in them. Analysis of Polish guidebooks is presented
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Consuming Landscapes: What We See When We Drive and Why It Matters Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Andrew Denning
Published in Journal of Tourism History (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2023)
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Editor’s introduction Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Bertram M. Gordon, Eric G. E. Zuelow
Published in Journal of Tourism History (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2023)
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Creating the new Hungarian Tatras: symbolic politics as a means of repositioning tourism in northern Hungary during the interwar period Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Gergely Kunt
ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of nationalism and propaganda in the development of tourism in interwar Hungary through a case study of Hotel Palota, a luxury hotel established in 1930 in Northern Hungary. Historical legitimation played an important role in the development of the hotel, as the goal was to construct a resort that represented the glorious national past of Hungary as well as revisionist
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The origins of the rack railway of Montserrat and the first attempt to build a Swiss-style mountain in Spain (1877–1889) Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Carles Gorini Santo
ABSTRACT Since remote times, people have flocked to the mountain of Montserrat, located in the north-east corner of the Iberian Peninsula. They are drawn by the whimsical shapes of its peaks and a deeply rooted religious tradition. The confluence of these factors led developers to apply the new Swiss mountain resort business model in an effort to exploit the landscape for its tourist value. The project
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‘Riding the wave’: the development of marinas around the world and the founding of the marina in Tel Aviv, Israel Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Giora Kaddar, Kobi Cohen-Hattab
ABSTRACT The first marina in Israel was founded in 1973 in Tel Aviv. The accelerated development of sailing in the West after World War II and the economic prosperity that followed demanded the construction of designated marinas, which began to appear in the West in the 1960s and in the eastern basin of the Mediterranean Sea in the 1970s. Similarly to Greece and Turkey, the marina in Tel Aviv was built
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‘Northern Getaway’: film, tourism, and the Canadian vacation Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Ryan Shand
Published in Journal of Tourism History (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2023)
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Enjoying Europe, yearning for Russia? Russian travel writing on the Baltic provinces during the 19th century Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Karsten Brüggemann
ABSTRACT After the end of the Napoleonic Wars it became popular in the Russian Empire to investigate one’s own country. Inspired by Alexander Bestuzhev-Marlinskii’s bestseller A Journey to Reval (1821), the Russian elite also travelled through the Baltic provinces with their romantic medieval ruins and Hanseatic cities. During the first half of the nineteenth century, Baltic German culture was usually
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Grasping and understanding the actors of a regional tourism system: the inputs of the Biolemano biographical database (Lake Geneva region, 1852-1914) Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Cédric Humair, Jan Chiarelli
ABSTRACT This article highlights the contributions of a biographical database called ‘Biolemano’, which contains information on 1761 tourism players in the Franco-Swiss region of Lake Geneva between 1852 and 1914. The result of more than ten years of research conducted at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), this digital tool offers innovative research perspectives in the history of tourism by
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Barry Island: the making of a seaside playground, c.1790 – c.1965 Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Virginia Richter
Published in Journal of Tourism History (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2023)
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Jet age aesthetics: the glamour of media in motion Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Dorthe Gert Simonsen
Published in Journal of Tourism History (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2023)
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Activities of agricultural way of life – a key to attract tourist in agritourism, a study from Tra Que traditional village (Hoi An, Quang Nam, Viet Nam) Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-02-26 Ha Van Trung, Patita Paban Mohanty
ABSTRACT This study focuses on the characteristics and activities of the ‘agricultural way of life’ in the development of the ‘agritourism’ in Tra Que vegetable village (Hoi An, Quang Nam) and to identify the level of tourist participation and their satisfaction in traditional agriculture activities. The questionnaire survey was conducted on 71 households and 100 tourists in Tra Que vegetable village
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Early post-war travel guides to the Philippines Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Brendan Luyt
ABSTRACT Travel guidebooks are an important component of the world’s popular information infrastructure, which alone justifies their study. In this article I examine four early post-war travel guides to the Philippines in terms of how they depict the Philippines and its peoples, as well as their construction of an imagined reader and the ties between that reader and the wider social context of their
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Urlaub Macht Geschichte. Reisen und Tourismus in der DDR Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Sina Fabian
Published in Journal of Tourism History (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2023)
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Correction Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-02-06
Published in Journal of Tourism History (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2023)
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Travelling second class. Czech tourists between national identity and Europeanness in Cairo, 1890s–1930s Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Sarah Lemmen
ABSTRACT In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, European tourism overseas often developed in the wake of colonial expansion and European hegemony. This was the case with Cairo, which developed into a main tourist location for well-to-do Europeans during the nineteenth century. Colonial interests and modernisation projects turned the Egyptian capital into a centre of both colonial and tourist
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Iran’s golden age of tourism: the development of the travel industry in the late Pahlavi period (c. 1960-1979) Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Robert Steele
ABSTRACT This article examines the development of Iran’s tourism sector in the two decades before the revolution of 1979. In this period, the number of tourists visiting Iran each year grew from fewer than 80,000 in 1962 to nearly 700,000 by 1977, and as a result, tourism became an increasingly important sector of Iran’s economy. The article assesses the factors that contributed to the growth of the
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Vagabond tourism and a non-colonial European gaze: Kazimierz Nowak’s bicycle journey across Africa, 1931–1936 Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Nathaniel D. Wood
ABSTRACT From November 1931 to November 1936, the Polish citizen Kazimierz Nowak traversed the African continent, from Libya to Cape Town to Algiers, primarily by bicycle and almost entirely without using motorised transportation. With no major sponsors or state support, Nowak paid for his journey by sending numerous photographs and dispatches back to Poland for publication. This article argues that
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A world away: the British package holiday boom, 1950-1974 Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Marc J. Alsina
Published in Journal of Tourism History (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2022)
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The Riviera, exposed: an ecohistory of postwar tourism and North African labor Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Megan Brown
Published in Journal of Tourism History (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2022)
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The summer trade: a history of tourism on prince Edward Island Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Claire Campbell
Published in Journal of Tourism History (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2022)
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Postcards: the rise and fall of the world’s first social network Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Adelina Stefan
Published in Journal of Tourism History (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2022)
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Architectural Tourism: Site-Seeing, Itineraries and Cultural heritage Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Panayiota Pyla
Published in Journal of Tourism History (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2022)
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Early twentieth century tourism and commercial photography in Egypt and the Holy Land Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Paul T. Nicholson
ABSTRACT Tourism, photography and ancient monuments are intimately linked and have a history stretching back to the beginnings of photography and to early mass-tourism. However, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries many tourists either did not own cameras or preferred to rely on professionally produced photographs. Foreign travel for many was the experience of a lifetime and for those
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Bodies at the beach: sea bathing on the Athenian seafront, 1870–1940 Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Yannis Yannitsiotis
ABSTRACT Drawing from Greek newspapers from the period 1870–1940, which preceded the advent of the international massive tourism in Greece, this article examines the relationship between bodies and the beaches on the Athenian seafront within the context of sea bathing. The ways in which this relationship was experienced, represented and regulated became inextricably linked with power dynamics articulated
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Innovative tourism development in a Hungarian regional centre in the 1930s Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2022-09-19 Tibor Gonda, Zoltán Kaposi
ABSTRACT Before the First World War, Pécs, one of the most dynamically developing Hungarian cities, was the largest in the region of Transdanubia. The losses of the world war and the subsequent three-year Serbian occupation caused considerable damage to the city’s economic and social fabric. Besides presenting the economic background of Pécs, the current study also discusses the local boom in tourism
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Flamboyance and wit. The promotion of film-induced tourism and Andalusian-inspired ‘brand Spain’ under the Ministry of Information and Tourism (1953-1959) Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2022-09-08 Maria C. Puche-Ruiz
ABSTRACT This paper aims to demonstrate that Hollywood film-induced tourism strategies also resonated in Spain in the 1950s, coinciding with the arrival of large contingents of American tourists in historical European cities. The use of these techniques, at a key moment of the diffident opening-up of Franco's regime, was adopted as a new and promising means to diffuse the traditionally Andalusian-inspired
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Interrail youth travel (re)producing communities of belonging – memories of Finnish travellers 1972–1991 Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Mikko Manka
ABSTRACT The creation of the affordable Interrail rail ticket offer in 1972 opened up European railway networks to European youth, enabling unprecedented leisure travel abroad for many young travellers. In the Nordic countries especially, Interrail became a generational European youth experience in the 1970s and 1980s. This article examines how Finnish Interrail travellers reconstruct their experienced
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Tourism mobilities in the Philippines: a historiographical analysis of travel and tourism activities from pre-1950s Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Robert Charles Capistrano, Kyrie Eleison Muñoz
ABSTRACT Tourism played a significant role in Philippine socio-economic development. However, scholarly interest on the history of tourism in the country is not pervasive, considering the scant literature focusing only on the evolution and development of Philippine tourism in the 1950s. The limited knowledge on tourism history in the country failed to recognise the existence of travel and tourism activities
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Contested Russian Tourism: Cosmopolitanism, Nation, and Empire in the Nineteenth Century Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Louise McReynolds
Published in Journal of Tourism History (Vol. 14, No. 1, 2022)
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Tourism, national identity, and the images on postage stamps: the case of Saudi Arabia Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Enas Fares Yehia, Hessa Jamaan M. Alzahrani, Donald Malcolm Reid, Mohamed Ahmed Ali
ABSTRACT Since the early twentieth century, Saudi Arabia has developed from a collection of religiously-inspired tribal conquests into a modern nation-state. Religious tourism–the centuries-old Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca (the Hajj)–is a central pillar of its identity. Taking the postage stamps of Saudi Arabia as a case study, this article shows how the country’s austere Wahhabi interpretation of Sunni
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‘An Entrepot for Tourism’: from developmental tourism to gateway travel in Singapore, 1937–2019 Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Evan R. Ward
ABSTRACT This article narrates Singaporean tourism development vis-à-vis conventional hotel-based and expensive public relations campaign models of tourism development championed by Western multi-lateral and private institutions in the postcolonial period. Using documents from the National Archives of Singapore, this article contends that Singapore opted for an infrastructure-led, aviation-based tourism
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Tourism and the history of travel Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Sasha D. Pack
ABSTRACT This article reviews recent literature that contributes to the project of locating tourism in a broader conceptual framework of travel. From analyzing the findings of these works, it adopts a critical posture toward categorical definitions of tourism and suggests ways to apply insights from tourism history to understand other forms of travel, including those practiced in times and places outside
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‘Noble helpers or evil exploiters?’ Contesting and negotiating West-German mass tourism to the global south, 1970–1985 Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Per Catharina Backhuis
ABSTRACT From the 1970s onwards, media commentators, politicians and a wide range of other actors increasingly criticised Western mass tourism to the Global South and highlighted how the perceived misbehaviour of tourists was causing socio-cultural problems. This article analyzes how in the Federal Republic of Germany, social scientists sought to change the perceptions and behaviour of mass tourists
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Introduction to the Journal of Tourism History – 13/3 Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Bertram M. Gordon
(2021). Introduction to the Journal of Tourism History – 13/3. Journal of Tourism History: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 225-228.
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Italia e Spagna nel turismo del secondo dopoguerra: società, politiche, istituzioni ed economia Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Alexander Langer
(2021). Italia e Spagna nel turismo del secondo dopoguerra: società, politiche, istituzioni ed economia. Journal of Tourism History: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 314-316.
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Australian travellers in the South Seas Journal of Tourism History Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Neil Rennie
(2021). Australian travellers in the South Seas. Journal of Tourism History: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 313-314.