The Establishment of a Car-Based Leisure Regime in Twentieth Century Europe: Appropriating the automobile for mass consumption in Denmark, Italy and the Soviet Union
Journal: VBN Forskningsportal (Aalborg Universitet)
Year: 2010

Comparative analysis of tourism and of its development in three different countries – Denmark, Italy and Soviet Union – has revealed the importance of the car as the keystone for changes in the habits of leisure time consumption all over in Europe. <br/>Even considering the specific features (social, economic and political) of each country, and the different decades in which this phenomenon has occurred, “individual” travel and stay has become, in Twentieth Century, the characteristics of domina