The happiness factor: Social tourism is sustainable tourism

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Can ‘social tourism’ — charity- and/or taxpayer-supported holidays — help alleviate stress in society and turn the travel & tourism industry’s off-season frowns upside down?

Scott McCabe thinks so.

Professor McCabe penned this “Good Tourism” Insight at the invitation of Tourism’s Horizon: Travel for the Millions, a “GT” Insight Partner.

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Contents

• Family holidays: A fine time
• … if one can afford a holiday
• … if one can afford a family
• What is ‘social tourism’?
• Social tourism: Sustainable tourism for the off season
• Social tourism’s ‘happiness factor’
• What do you think?
• About the author