Tourist modernisation and social legitimation in Spain

✍ Scribed by Alejandro Mantecón

• Book ID: 102446502
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 81 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1099-2340
• DOI: 10.1002/jtr.784

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Spain's modernisation has been based, to a large extent, on the so‐called ‘residential tourism’. Its two‐fold nature—as a production model and a type of lifestyle migration—has complex repercussions. The aim of this paper is to delve, with a qualitative approach, into the key factors that explain the current social legitimation of this process by the Spanish society. The research suggests that the process is legitimated by its definition as an essentially tourism phenomenon. The label ‘tourism’ acts as some sort of ‘funnel’ that would not allow to go through it the problems associated with lifestyle migration or urbanisation. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.