Tourism, Urbanization, and the Evolving Periphery of the European Union

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-socialis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Holleran, Max
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Palgrave Pivot 2020, 2020
Edition:1st ed. 2020
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 2 Tourism and Europe’s Shifting Periphery: Post-Franco Spain and Post-Socialist Bulgaria
  • Chapter 3 Coasts of Aspiration: Climbing the Tourism ‘Ladder’
  • Chapter 4 Leisure Spaces and the Aesthetics of Europe
  • Chapter 5 Conclusion: Returning to Peripherality: the Social Experience of Urban Crisis