Originally published: 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Reinventing the Sociology of Tourism / Yorghos Apostolopoulos -- Towards a sociological understanding of contemporary tourism -- Representations of International Tourism in the Social Sciences: Sun, Sex, Sights, Savings, and Servility / Malcolm Crick -- The Sociology of Tourism: Approaches, Issues, and Findings / Erik Cohen -- The tourism system and the individual -- Motivation and Anticipation in Post-Industrial Tourism / Giuli Liebman Parrinello -- A Phenomenology of Tourist Experiences / Erik Cohen -- Structures of social inequality in the tourism system -- Tourism, Culture and Social Inequality / John Urry -- Gender and Class Relations in Tourism Employment / Michael Ireland -- Tourism, underdevelopment and dependency -- Tourism, Dependency and Development: A Mode of Analysis / Stephen Britton -- Close Encounters of the Third World / Cecilia A. Karch, G.H.S. Dann -- Tourism and social institutions -- The Changing Economics of the Tourist Industry / John Urry -- Tourism and the Family in a Rural Cretan Community / Maria Kousis -- The Philippines: The Politicization of Tourism / Linda K. Richter -- Tourism and social change -- Gender and Economic Interests in Tourism Prostitution: The Nature, Development and Implications of Sex Tourism in South-East Asia / C. Michael Hall -- Interpretations of Tourism As Commodity / G. Llewellyn Watson, Joseph P. Kopachevsky -- Towards a 'new' sociology of tourism -- Sociology and Tourism / Graham Dann, Erik Cohen -- Mega-Events and Micro-Modernization: On the Sociology of the New Urban Tourism / Maurice Roche.