Parting Words: Facilitating Intercultural Communications Through Tourism: The Example of Greece

摘要

Mass tourism is relatively new creation. World War Ⅱ gave the average person the opportunity to travel, as soldiers deployed to the front lines saw their neighboring countries or people apart from their own. But given the circumstances at that time, they could not fully appreciate what the place or its people had to offer (Tar-low, 2003). According to Momsen (1999), the World Travel and Tourism Council estimates that tourists are spending 3.6 trillion dollars on goods and services directly or indirectly; this constitutes about 10.6 percent of the 1996 gross global product. One of the largest industries in the world, tourism and tourism-related industries provide one out of ten jobs worldwide.