This paper analyses the market transformations in heritage tourism destinations when excessivetourism demand determines the emergence of a class of excursionists among visitors. Building onthe approach of Keane (1997) and Shapiro (1983), our model highlights some importantdimensions of...

Since the global economic and financial crisis of 2008, tourism has taken up a central position in the recovery of Spain’s severely damaged economy. If the first years after the recession signaled a considerable decline of the tourism sector, the later years in which those countries with the...

The purpose of the paper is to highlight the contributions to the understanding of tourism, that came from empirical studies on theoretical approaches of contemporary sociology, especially those that deviate from structuralist positions. A search, selection and analysis of documents issued in...

The following work seeks to unveil a holistic image of the tourism experience phenomenon by bringing up new perspectives in the research and complementing it with the postmodern angle in order to increase its relevance. The article integrates two fundamental streams of tourism experience...

Spanish Abstract: El siguiente ensayo centra su foco en el trabajo de Jost Krippendorf, sus principales problemas a la hora de comprender el turismo pero también en sus contribuciones. Aun cuando su proyecto ha sido ambicioso desde su orígenes, se le critica haber obviado ciertos fundamentos...

This paper is an attempt to broaden economic discourse by importing insights into human behavior not just from psychology, but also from sociology and anthropology. Whereas the concept of the decision-maker in standard economics is the rational actor and, in early work in behavioral economics,...

In this editorial for the Thematic Series: Cultural Sociology and China, we discuss the global growth of cultural sociology as a sociological sub-discipline, its current state and future prospects in mainland China, and the aims of this special issue in promoting the subfield's further growth...