THE D.I.Y. TOURIST

Tullio Romita; Antonella Perri

doi:10.26215/tourismos.v6i2.231

Tullio Romita

Director of the Tourist Research Centre, Department of Sociology and Political Science of the University of Calabria (Italy). University of Calabria - Department of Sociology and Political Science – Via Pietro Bucci Cubo 0B - (87036) Arcavacata di Rende (CS).

Antonella Perri

Field Manager of the Tourist Research Centre, Department of Sociology and Political Science of the University of Calabria (Italy). University of Calabria - Department of Sociology and Political Science – Via Pietro Bucci Cubo 0B - (87036) Arcavacata di Rende (CS).

Keywords

spontaneous tourist context, D.I.Y. Tourist, sustainable tourism, undetected tourism

Abstract

In this work we will be dealing with the figure of the D.I.Y. Tourist originated from the local development processes based on the “cottage tourist industry” concept. We will be doing this by using part of the results obtained through a research started more than three years ago, by which we are studying what happens in the territorial contexts where tourism develops mostly on a spontaneous basis, that is in the presence of a widespread and pervasive undetected tourism practiced through private accommodation and mostly selfmanaged.

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