Tourism as a socio-cultural institute

Socio-cultural impacts of contemporary tourism.

The topic of the paper is devoted to analysis of socio-cultural impacts of tourism, as effects on the people of host communities resulting from their direct and indirect associations with tourists. The social and cultural impacts of tourism are the ways in which tourism is contributing to changes in value systems, individual behavior, family structure and relationships, collective lifestyles, s...

Cruise tourism : economic , socio - cultural and environmental impacts

Cruise tourism generates an estimated $18 billion a year in passenger expenditure and has been the fastest growing sector of the travel industry in the last years. Arrivals in the Caribbean region increased from three million in 1980 to more than 25 million in 2007. In this paper we describe the evolution of the cruise industry and review the experiences of different cruise destinations. We als...

Design as a Socio-cultural Cognitive System

Religion as dialogical resource: a socio-cultural approach.

William James proposed a psychological study of religion examining people's religious experiences, and to see in what sense these were good for them. The recent developments of psychology of religion moved far from that initial proposition. In this paper, we propose a sociocultural perspective to religion that renews with that initial stance. After recalling Vygtotsky's core ideas, we suggest t...

Tourism and the Value System: An Impact Assessment from Socio-cultural Perspective

The contemporary world has given a high priority to the development of tourism for the reason that it is considered as an export business without actually sending any tangible products out of the boarder. Beside its economic gain, its effects and implications appear in myriad of forms and guises both in pros and cons. Some of them are latent just performing as instigating agents while some are ...