Tourism and greek society during the 1945-1974 period

Abstract

The postwar development of the tourist industry in Greece is inscribed in the international current of tourism massification and the wave of Western citizens that travelled towards the south, in the wake of the Keynesian regime of accumulation. However, the particularities of the tourist phenomenon in this country are also related to specific political and economic procedures during this time and in the discrepancy between idiosyncrasies of the international tourist structure and practiced domestic policies.In Greece, the tourist industry was favored by the post-civil war accession of the country in the ‘western-camp’ and the paneuropean division of labour that was promoted by the Marshal plan. The political elites were perceiving tourism as a promising economic alternative to agriculture and industrial development, as well as a form of cosmopolitan modernization that would form them culturally under the demand of westernization.During the first post war years (1945-1967), the tourist ...
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DOI
10.12681/eadd/33125
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/33125
ND
33125
Alternative title
Τουρισμός και ελληνική κοινωνία την περίοδο 1945-1974
Author
Nikolakakis, Michail (Father's name: Georgios)
Date
2013
Degree Grantor
University of Crete (UOC)
Committee members
Παπαϊωάννου Σκεύος
Σερντεδάκις Νικόλαος
Λέκκας Παντελεήμων
Ζαχαράτος Γεράσιμος
Ζαϊμάκης Ιωάννης
Γκούνης Κωνσταντίνος
Τσάρτας Πάρις
Discipline
Humanities and the Arts ➨ History and Archaeology
Social Sciences ➨ Sociology
Keywords
Tourism; Greek society; Postwar Greece; Commodification; Tourism development
Country
Greece
Language
Greek
Description
633 σ., tbls., fig., ind.
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