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Three page paper. Talks about the leisure industry's many reasons for making people visit other countries. How they improve themselves time and time again. no additional sources
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to consider the way in which commodification and reification can be related to leisure, it would be useful to look briefly at the way in which these terms are applied
to social structure in the leisure industry and how the concepts relate to leisure facilities. For example, connodification refers to the way in which an object is transformed into something
that can be bought and sold by those besides the person who has originally produced or developed the object: the commodity has an innate economic worth of its own.
For instance, land was not regarded as a commodity in
Europe until new countries were discovered through colonial expansion. Landed estates in Europe itself had been inherited through families and consequently there was no surplus land to be commodified: however,
the new regions which were discovered and which had been owned communally by the inhabitants (such as in the Americas) was parcelled out by the Europeans and granted to individuals
as commodities which could later be bought and sold.
The leisure industry is responsible for commodification when, for example, the demands of tourism come to be seen as dominating the values and traditions of local cultures. In the
case of a particular destination, such as a local village, there are a number of changes which may be undergone as a result of the change in power structures, since
the requirements of the incoming tourists come to be seen as more important than the those of the local people.
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