The development of the tourist travel systems: A metropolitan economic hegemony par excellence?

Abstract

This paper wants to illustrate a development sequence of a number of interrelated elements into a strongly tied total transport mechanism for individual travelling. The example is drawn from the geographically far‐flung mechanism which serves international tourist travel and especially the relationships, more or less rigid at different periods of the evolution, of the travel system, between travel‐generating and destination areas. The interrelationships which are depicted are in the author's mind quite similar to the economic and structural regional inter‐dependence between developed (metropolitan) and developing parts of the world. Therefore, the various complaints that have been voiced about widening gaps between the haves and have nots, on an international scale, and that are based on comparisons between national incomes etc. seem also to be applicable to the characteristics of the travel structures and systems within which the international tourist flows take place. The notions of center/periphery relationships could, however, also be seen on other geographic scale levels.

Citation

Lundgren, J.O.J. (1973), "The development of the tourist travel systems: A metropolitan economic hegemony par excellence?", The Tourist Review, Vol. 28 No. 1, pp. 2-14. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb057675