ABSTRACT
Resorts provide a setting for human activity which has far-reaching social and environmental repercussions and should not be dismissed simply as hedonism. They have often been disregarded as trivial and unworthy of serious scholarly discussion, though the recent writings of MacCannell (1992), Sack (1992) and Urry (1990) indicate that some scholars are taking this heightened form of tourist place-making very seriously indeed.
