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Cinema and the automobile: Driving factors of new tourism models in the early years of the Golden Age
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The Costa Brava as mentioned in this paper became a tourist destination in just ten years, turning it into a true world leader in the 1950s by the shooting of the film Pandora and the Flying Dutchman on local beaches.About:
This article is published in Tourism Management Perspectives.The article was published on 2016-07-01. It has received 9 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Tourism.read more
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Lost in Thailand: A case study on the impact of a film on tourist behavior:
TL;DR: Based on user-generated content from a social media website, this paper investigated the impact of a popular film in China, Lost in Thailand, on tourist behavior at the destination and found that tourists were more likely to watch the movie in Thailand.
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Economic and social resilience accounts for the recovery of Ibiza's tourism sector
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the challenges of providing competitively priced transport for tourists in islands, such as good weather, beaches and landscapes, but it also requires the provision of competitive prices for transportation.
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Resort Development and Pathways in South Africa: Hermanus 1890–1994
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the historical evolution of seaside resorts in South Africa using the example of Hermanus in the Western Cape and demonstrate that the tourism pathway of this resort shifted over time, and during the 1980s, it became an ecotourism destination centred around the return of whales to the resort's coastline.
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The Crumbling of Francoist Spain’s Isolationism Thanks to Foreign Currency Brought by European Tourists in the Early Years of the Golden Age
Cirer Costa,Joan Carles +1 more
TL;DR: In the Balearic Islands and the Costa Brava an ample tourist sector flourished against a political background that was essentially in opposition to it -the autarchic stage of the Franco regime.
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Spain's tourism models in the first third of the twentieth century
TL;DR: The remarkable emergence of the service sector to dominate the modern economy is the most outstanding consequence of the Industrial Revolution in the first third of the twentieth century as discussed by the authors, and with it appeared a new social class which made an active contribution to the sector's growth by opting for a new kind of tourist provision which was very different from traditional models, above all holidays in Spain.
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The business of tourism.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define and analyze tourism and its impacts, including economic impacts, socio-cultural impacts, environmental impacts, and the structure and role of the public sector in tourism.
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Movies as tourism promotion: A ‘pull’ factor in a ‘push’ location
TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that the movie "Crocodile Dundee" increased awareness of Australia's attractions in the minds of potential tourists, and that the attraction potential appeared to lie within the motivations of escape, pilgrimage and a quest for untainted environments.
Understanding the Film-Induced Tourist
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce a new conceptual approach to understand the potential and actual motivations of the film-induced tourist, which is based on the push and pull factor theory of motivation.
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The evolution of current medical and popular attitudes toward ultraviolet light exposure: part 3
TL;DR: The 1920s and 1930s represented an extraordinary time in the shaping of modern attitudes towards ultraviolet light, and the field of phototherapy rapidly expanded, and its use was employed by proponents for a host of unlikely medical conditions.