The Holiday Makers

The Holiday Makers
Author: Jost Krippendorf
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2010-02-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136357556

International best-seller Thought-provoking and profound in its analysis of the present and future patterns of work and leisure

The Holiday Makers

The Holiday Makers
Author: Richard K. Popp
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2012-05-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0807142867

Between the 1930s and 1960s, the spread of new transportation networks and the democratization of paid vacations struck many observers as a sign that tourism was growing into a folkway of modern American life. Easy mobility and free time lay at the heart of this idealized vision, and vacations were seen as a ritualized expression of the movement and egalitarianism that characterized midcentury modernity. The Holiday Makers tells the story of how advertisers sold tourist travel in popular magazines during this era, transforming consumer culture in the process.

Holiday Makers

Holiday Makers
Author: Jost Krippendorf
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2010-02-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136357548

The Holiday Makers is thought-provoking and profound in its analysis of the present and future patterns of work and leisure. The author analyses the different forms of tourism, examines the effects on the indigenous countries and their people, and outlines positive steps to reconcile people's holiday requirements with the world's economic and social structures.

Bedouin, Settlers, and Holiday-makers

Bedouin, Settlers, and Holiday-makers
Author: Donald Powell Cole
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789774244841

""A new e-book edition of the classic study of the radical changes in lifestyle, trade, agriculture, and land use that have taken place on Egypt's northwest coast in the face of a huge influx of Nile Valley settlers and touristsThe arid regions impose strict limits upon human existence and activity. And yet by respecting those limits, the flourishing and stable culture of these regions has for centuries been sustained. In the late twentieth century, however, forces such as modernization, globalization, and the politics and economics of nations became so great that major changes in the old ways.

The Holiday Makers

The Holiday Makers
Author: Richard K. Popp
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2012-05-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0807142875

In mid-twentieth-century America, mass tourism became emblematic of the expanding horizons associated with an affluent, industrial society. Nowhere was the image of leisurely travel more visible than in the parade of glossy articles and advertisements that beckoned readers from the pages of popular magazines. In Richard K. Popp's The Holiday Makers, the magazine industry serves as a window into postwar media and consumer society, showing how the dynamics of market research and commercial print culture helped shape ideas about place, mobility, and leisure. Magazine publishers saw travel content as a way to connect audiences to a booming ad sector, while middlebrow editors believed sightseeing travel was a means of fostering a classless society at home and harmony abroad. Expanding transportation networks and free time lay at the heart of this idealized vision. Holiday magazine heralded nothing less than the dawn of a new era, calling it "the age of Mobile Man -- Man gifted, for the first time in history, with leisure and the means to enjoy distance on a global scale." For their part, advertisers understood that selling tourism meant turning "dreams into action," as ad executive David Ogilvy put it. Doing so involved everything from countering ugly stereotypes to tapping into desires for "authentic" places and self-actualization. Though tourism was publicly touted in egalitarian terms, publishers and advertisers privately came to see it as an easy way to segment the elite free spenders from the penny-pinching masses. Just as importantly, marketers identified correlations between an interest in travel and other consumer behavior. Ultimately, Popp contends, the selling of tourism in postwar America played an early, integral role in the shift toward lifestyle marketing, an experiential service economy, and contributed to escalating levels of social inequality.

Tourism: The experience of tourism

Tourism: The experience of tourism
Author: Stephen Williams
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2004
Genre: Tourism
ISBN: 9780415243742

This collection of key articles from the most influential journals and books in the field examines what social scientists mean by the term tourism, and what it means to be a tourist. Carefully selected and introduced by the editor, this material charts the sociological changes that have occurred in tourism, and the change from the upper-class grand tours of the late nineteenth-century to the mass tourism of the present day. The collection also assesses the economic impacts of tourism on local economies, environmental considerations, and whether the growth of tourism is sustainable in a post-September 11th world. "Tourism: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences" is an accessible and comprehensive resource designed for academics and scholars researching in tourism, globalization, and human geography.

Thomas Cook

Thomas Cook
Author: Jill Hamilton
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2005-01-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0752495089

In this look at the man behind the business, Jill Hamilton explores the origins of the former Baptist lay-preacher who wanted to take campaigners to a temperance meeting in the Midlands and thus organized the first ever package holiday in the history of modern travel.