Tourism constitutes one of the most important economic and social activities in contemporary societies. This book deals with this tourism in a very specific geographical space and focusing on the different pillars of sustainability.
Tourism constitutes one of the most important economic and social activities in
contemporary societies. This has not always been the case and, in fact, we must place
the birth of modern tourism and its material culture in the transition from the 19th
to the 20th century. This book deals with this tourism in a very specific geographical
space, the countries of southern Europe, and on a chronology centered on the 20th
century and focusing on the different pillars of sustainability: economic, social and
environmental.
The aim of this book is to analyze how the maritime and coastal tourism gave birth
to a new economy and material culture during the Twentieth century, focusing on
different countries and regions in southern Europe. Today this part of Europe is still
the most important tourist destination in the world.
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Sustainability in tourism in Italy in post-World War II |
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Mass tourism and social sustainability: Insights from the Italian and French coasts |
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"Sous les paves, la plage": Sun, sand, and surf in French tourism - The evolution of an image |
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Transformations of tourism. On the French Riviera since the 1950s |
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Spain after the Civil War (1936-1939). The new possibilities for maritime and coastal tourism |
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Pioneering projects in the tourism development of the Costa del Sol (Spain) |
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"White Flowers" of the Aegean. Would Le Corbusier use the same expression today? |
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"Socialist-style tourist accommodation" |
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Yugoslavia awaits you: post WW2 tourism promotion of the Yugoslav coast |
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Patrizia Battilani is Professor of Economic History at the University of Bologna, Italy. Her primary research interests are the history of culture and tourism with applications in the field of participatory tourism planning, enhancement of UNESCO world heritage sites and European cultural routes, as well as business history with a focus on social enterprises. Currently she has the scientific responsibility for the Bologna unit of the Interreg Italy-Croatia Recolor (Reviving and EnhanCing artwOrks and Landscapes Of the adRiatic) and she is part of the research team of RurAllure (Horizon 2020), FabRoutes (Erasmus+), Mistral (Interreg Med). She is also part or the research team for the Spanish project HAR2017-82679-C2-1-P.
Carlos Larrinaga is Associate Professor of Economic History at the University of Granada (Andalusia, Spain). His research is in the history of tourism, railways in the 19th century and the service sector. He is currently leading an interdisciplinary project on the history of tourism in Spain and Italy in the twentieth century, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and ERDF (HAR2017-82679-C2-1-P project). He has undertaken research in several stays at Bordeaux-Montaigne University and at Aberystwyth University.
