PhD project Tourism and Gambling in Seaside Resorts

Updated: May 11, 2024 09:16 AM GMT

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PhD project Tourism and Gambling in Seaside Resorts

Worth the gamble? Tourism and the embeddedness of gambling in seaside resorts.

Background

Seaside resorts played a crucial role in the historical development of tourism into a cornerstone of modern society during the nineteenth and twentieth century. Besides a healthy environment, coastal towns developed infrastructure and entertainment within a permissive atmosphere favoring encounters. Away from home, these liminal places offered a regime of exception, not least for gambling. In the coming years, the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) will set up research projects to better understand the historical process that shaped seaside resorts and tourism as a whole. We begin by uncovering how gambling acquired an essential place in seaside resorts and became imbedded within the tourist industry. As the recent opening of the brand-new casino Silt in Middelkerke illustrates, gambling continues to play a central but contested role... More Detail