GEOG 3490 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Niche Market, Post-Fordism, Mass Customization
9 Mar 2017
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Mass tourism: good to see whats new in torusim through mass tourism, butlers model involves resort tourism and its dev/evolution over time. 20th century context for increasing mass tourism: what do we need to support tourism, time, more info on other areas. Increasing awareness (news, media, internet: better ways of travelling (planes, cars, declining costs and more money/income. Increasing internationalization: 1960s-1990s, emphasis on eruope as destination, development of package, all-inclusive resorts. Increasing number of countries involved in tourism (both origin and destination: spread of mass tourism to developing/global south world. European dominate; mexican market dominated by north americans, Geog*3490: mass tourism: some geographic as well (different parts of world travel to different places some are closer, cheaper, etc) Shift from mass tourism new kinds of tourism. Associated shifts in tourism: old/fordist/modern, mass, packaged, 4 s (sun, sea, sand, sex, unreal (must be an escape from reality) Irresponsibility (socially, wants to relax, have no worries: new/post-fordist/post-modern.
