The Leisure Industry In Britain, 1818–39

Jones, Stephen

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“…Holiday camps were spaces designed and built for the sole purpose of satisfying the entertainment cravings of the rising middle classes. They were truly mass consumer products, and, in line with what was happening in the industrial world, innovative entrepreneurs in the world of tourism were eager to offer standardised products that would minimise the cost of production (Jones, 1985, 1986; Robertson, 1967; Williams et al , 1992):…”

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“…Many of these holiday camps offered only sun, sand and sea in squalid facilities, but a superior format soon appeared with an emphasis on fun and quality. The most advanced holiday camps were built by Billy Butlin, a show businessman who opened his first camp in Skegness in 1937 and advertised “the greatest possible all-in holiday value at the lowest reasonable price” (Jones, 1985, p. 95). The facilities at Butlin’s camps were relatively luxurious, clearly beyond the reach of British workers in the 1930s.…”

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Creation of mass sun-and-beach tourism in Spain: the definition of the tourist product through architecture

Cirer Costa

2023

JHRM

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze Spain’s success in developing mass tourism between 1950 and 1965. Design/methodology/approach This analysis will be carried out from a marketing point of view using the paradigm of the four Ps: product, price, promotion and place, but focusing on the product since, as will be seen, the three other variables had a much lesser impact at that early stage. The product, in holiday tourism, is the destination, a combination in which the main protagonist is the hotel. The authors will analyse the main characteristics of the tourist accommodation on offer in Majorca and Ibiza in two ways: by studying the general statistics on the one hand, and on the other, through the detailed description of two hotel projects focused on the same tourist market but conceptually very different. In the first, a British design from 1956, we see the seed of what could have been and was not. Spain could have been filled with enclave-type tourist destinations with little connection to the local economic network. The second hotel design, on the other hand, shows us the ideal establishment for the exploitation of mass tourism in open destinations. Findings In Spain, mass tourism was explosively successful because the local business community was able to offer a very attractive product. Originality/value The authors use the architectural designs of two hotels as the central axis of the description of the Spanish tourism product.

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Creation of mass sun-and-beach tourism in Spain: the definition of the tourist product through architecture

Cirer Costa

2023

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Cinema and the automobile: Driving factors of new tourism models in the early years of the Golden Age

Costa

2016

Tourism Management Perspectives

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Labour, Society and the Drink Question in Britain, 1918–1939

Jones

1987

Hist. J.

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The historiography of leisure has made considerable advances since the pioneering years of the early 1970s. Research into Victorian leisure has shown that some of the ruling elite attempted to fashion the life-style of working people in order to create a disciplined and reliable labour force which suited the needs of a maturing industrial and urban society, although it must be added that sections of the British public remained immune to attempts at moral reform and improvement. Professional labour leaders were also eager to control and regulate the amusements of the poor. According to trade union bosses like John Doherty, only a sober, industrious and thrifty working class could hope to achieve progressive reforms and some form of political and economic emancipation: workers who were intemperate would apparently stifle the opportunities and aspirations of the emerging Labour movement. Nowhere is this more true than in the Labour leadership's perception of and policy towards working-class drinking.

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The Leisure Industry In Britain, 1818–39

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

Creation of mass sun-and-beach tourism in Spain: the definition of the tourist product through architecture

Creation of mass sun-and-beach tourism in Spain: the definition of the tourist product through architecture

Cinema and the automobile: Driving factors of new tourism models in the early years of the Golden Age

Labour, Society and the Drink Question in Britain, 1918–1939

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