ABSTRACT
In Chapter 2 we saw how the development of domestic tourism in Britain followed a clearly defined sequence in which several processes were prominent:
• a spatial development through time of tourist places, from an initial position in which tourism was centred in a limited number of small resorts to an eventual pattern of large-scale development of coastlines and rural hinterlands in which many tourist places may be located;
• a change in motives for travel to resorts from (in the British case, at least) a quest for health to the pursuit of pleasure;
• a process of democratisation of tourism whereby what originates as the exclusive practice of a social elite diffuses down the social ladder to become an important area for mass forms of popular participation.
