A World Away. The British package holiday boom, 1950-74
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- Author(s) Law, Michael J
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2022
- Pages 264pp; illus
- Publisher McGill Queen's University Press
- Place Published Montreal
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Deals with the 'package tour industry from its mid century origins through its inherent weaknesses, governmental interference, and unforeseen world events that contributed to its partial failure in the early 1970s'. Deals especially with the package holidaymakers, identifying them and locating their self-identities and wider societal attitudes to them and in this using, inter alia, flight accident investigations . Uses personal testimonies to describe experiences