No holiday this year? The depression of the 1930s and tourism in Scotland

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ID12924701
AutoresAlastair J Durie (0000-0001-8240-2166, University of Stirling, autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume2
Fascículo2
Páginas67-82
Data de publicação2010-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Tourism History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1755-182X • E-ISSN: 1755-1838
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1755182x.2010.481728
OpenAlexW1979444497
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas8

As current events are showing, tourism is vulnerable to any downturn in economic conditions. This study examines what happened during the depression in the early 1930s in Scotland, whose industrial sector was as hard hit as anywhere in the UK, and what effect prolonged unemployment had on firmly established patterns of holiday-taking. It reviews, using contemporary evidence, the experience of both sending communities and the receiving resorts, and examines changes in where people went, for how long, and their spend. It concludes that the habit of holidaymaking was remarkably resilient

Archaeology · Depression (economics · Economics · Geography · Great Depression · Keynesian economics · Tourism · Historical Art and Culture Studies · History · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Scottish History and National Identity