Leisure Migration: A Sociological Study on Tourism: 2 (Tourism Social Science Series, 2) - Hardcover

Borocz, Jozsef

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0080425607 ISBN 13: 9780080425603

Publisher: Pergamon Press, 1996

Synopsis

The book opens with an account of recent developments in the economic, political and cultural sociology of international tourism and goes on to analyse the relationships between international tourism and the broad economic determinants of the world system. The book aims to understand "leisure migration" in two principal contexts: the socio-economic hierarchies of society, and the legacy of east-west political alliances. This novel theoretical synthesis combines data at the global, continental, and regional levels of tourism, focusing particularly on Austria and Hungary - one of the most exciting areas of Europe – where the social, political, cultural and economic boundaries of the emerging European integration are being contested and redrawn today.

In adopting an eclectic research strategy, including historical narrative, content analysis, linguistic history, statistical modelling, and fieldwork observation, the book breaks new ground with regard to the empirical material it covers, and is a timely and relevant contribution to the advancement of this debate.

To access the author's homepage, follow this link http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jborocz

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Review:

David Leslie, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
...a worthy and welcome addition to the serious student of tourism and a contribution to the understanding of socio-economic dimensions of society and development.
International Journal of Tourism Research

About this edition

• Publisher: Pergamon Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0080425607
• ISBN 13: 9780080425603
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Jafari Jafar