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John K. Walton
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Professor of Contemporary History, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain. Editor of the Journal of Tourism History and the author of The British Seaside: Holidays and Resorts in the Twentieth Century, among others.
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Tourism, the act and process of spending time away from home in pursuit of recreation, relaxation, and pleasure, while making use of the commercial provision of services. As such, tourism is a product of modern social arrangements, beginning in western Europe in the 17th century, although it has…
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