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Tourism, Urbanization, and the Evolving Periphery of the European Union by Max Holleran is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book explores travel, tourism, and urban development at the edges of Europe from the 1970s until the present. It compares tourism-spurred urban growth in Spain and Bulgaria, showing how development in Southern Europe after the fall of dictatorships provided a model for integrating post-socialist Europe in the 1990s. It analyzes the economic, cultural, and political dimensions of tourist economies, showing how they aligned with major European Union integration goals and were supported with EU development funds. It also chronicles the social and environmental costs of mass tourism where over-development has despoiled beachfronts and promoted low paying service jobs, reinforcing regional divisions in Europe between those who host and those who visit. Ultimately, it argues that while mass tourism is touted as a viable economic solution to EU inequality, it can potentially exacerbate disparities between core and peripheral zones, creating new and troubling forms of regional polarization. Erscheinungsdatum: 12.11.2019

Who reads Tourism, Urbanization, and the Evolving Periphery of the European Union?

Author

Max Holleran

Publisher

Springer Singapore : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9789811502170

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Science, Economics