TY - CHAP AU - José Antonio González Pizarro ED - Leszek Butowski Y1 - 2016-05-04 PY - 2016 T1 - Tourism and Immigration: The European Contribution to the Invention of Landscape and Hotel Industry in the Atacama Desert During the Nitrate Epoch, 1880–1930 N2 - Tourism is that area of activity of contemporary man that touches on various fields of human interest. Representatives of numerous academic disciplines find it intriguing for its exceptionally interdisciplinary character. Conditions for and consequences of the development of tourism are investigated, among others, by economists, geographers, sociologists, experts in culture, anthropologists, management and social policy specialists and even by representatives of some natural sciences. Researchers dealing with tourism need to meet strict methodological requirements, but they get access to a very interesting subject of scientific inquiry, which combines social, cultural, economic and environmental aspects to create an ontologically new quality offering epistemological challenges. BT - Tourism SP - Ch. 8 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/62640 DO - 10.5772/62640 SN - 978-953-51-2281-4 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-05-05 ER -