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- Title
Consumo turístico y desigualdad social en España.
- Authors
Rodríguez González, Pablo; Santana Turégano, Manuel A.
- Abstract
The paper examines the relationship between tourism consumption and social inequality within the Spanish Society, updating the sociological perspective on this issue through a survey to general population. The participation in tourism is operationalized in a typology that facilitates critical examination of the thesis that tourism is currently both differentiated and generalized. The segmentation (CHAID) analysis permits to reflect the interactions between the manifold dimensions of social structure, identifying privileged and excluded groups in their relations with tourism consumption. Study results show that tourism consumption in Spain is highly polarized, with a relatively small group of people traveling a lot (20%), about one third of the population with an average participation in tourism and over 40% of the population excluded from tourism consumption, either for economic reasons (28%) or other reasons (14%). As for the factors affecting tourism consumption, the study results show that those traditionally associated with social structure and social inequality (economic activity, social class) are the most influential factors in tourism participation.
- Subjects
TOURISM; EQUALITY; SOCIAL structure; SOCIOECONOMICS; ECONOMIC indicators
- Publication
Pasos: Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural, 2014, Vol 12, Issue 1, p29
- ISSN
2529-959X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.25145/j.pasos.2014.12.003