Tourism in the system of industrial society

Abstract

Recreation and tourism are integral parts of the whole industrial social system. Viewed thus, tourism, so successful in the past two decades, seems clearly doomed to radical change. Many signs in the universe of work-habitate-leisure-travel indicate that the present system does not satisfy the human needs of traveler, host, and ultimately the social system. One inevitable result of forecast change, is a new, humane understanding of leisure and tourism; one should begin forging it before the opportunity for choice and reason disappears. Les loisoirs, et le tourisme en tant que l'un de ses aspects, ne contituent pas un monde à part qui obéit à des lois propres. Ils sont la conséquence, et simultanèment une composante, du système social industriel. Dans l'article