Open AccessO TURISMO NO CONTEXTO DA SOCIEDADE INFORMACIONAL
Author(s) -
Andréa do Nascimento Barbosa Cacho,
Francisco Fransualdo de Azevedo
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
revista brasileira de pesquisa em turismo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1982-6125
DOI - 10.7784/rbtur.v4i2.266
Subject(s) - humanities , political science , business , art
This paper aims to analyze consumer behavior in informational society through a historical approach beginning at the first and second industrial revolutions. Social behavior is described as well as relations between work and leisure time. This paper also describes relationships between society and tourism by analyzing the consequences of technological evolution in travel and tourism. It focuses mainly on the use of Internet and its consequences in tourist market. The results showed that consumption of tourism goods and services has increased due to the use of new technologies, consequent lowering of prices and reduction of intermediation, as well as to the increasing tourist flows. It was a bibliographical research on books and journals