Shifted Identities in Tourism: When Mykonos travels to Thailand for Holidays

Despina Nazou

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Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present the family tourist trips and holidays as a complex process, defined by a series of socio-cultural factors such as the sense of locality, the family ties, the professional status. There will be the attempt to show the tourist perceptions and practices of a group of entrepreneurs from Mykonos (place of origin), an overly-developed Greek tourist island. While they themselves are producers of tourism services, by going on pleasure trips to Thailand they become tourists, even forming a tourist identity related to perceptions about the sense of belonging and the family.

Keywords: family; tourism; entrepreneurs; Mykonos; identities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L83 M0 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-07-04, Revised 2009-08-27
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Published in http://www.chios.aegean.gr/tourism/journal.htm 3.4(2009): pp. 81-98

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