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