Titlepage -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Structure of the Book -- The Case Studies: Social Tourism Practices -- Conclusions -- Case Study 1: International Social Tourism Organisation (ISTO, formerly BITS) -- 2 Defining Social Tourism and its Historical Context -- Definitions -- Social Tourism in Europe: A Brief History -- Conclusions -- Case Study 2: Holiday Participation Centre (Steunpunt Vakantieparticipatie), Flanders, Belgium -- 3 Social Tourism Today: Stakeholders, and Supply and Demand Factors -- An Explanatory Framework for the Common Organisational Structure of Social Tourism in Europe -- Unpacking the Demand for Social Tourism -- Social Tourism Systems -- Intermediary Organisations -- Commercial and Social Tourism: An Ambivalent Relationship -- Developing Unified Social Tourism Implementation Schemes -- Conclusions -- Case Study 3: Family Holiday Association, UK -- 4 Resisting the Hegemony of the Market: Reclaiming the Social Capacities of Tourism -- Hegemonic Neoliberalism and its Impacts -- Neoliberalism and Tourism -- Tourism as an Industry: The Marketisation of Tourism -- Tourism as a Social Force: The Transformative Capacity of Tourism -- Tourism and Travel as a Human Right -- Social Tourism: A Forgotten Commitment to Humanity -- Conclusions -- Case Study 4: Labour Market Holiday Fund (Arbejdsmarkedets Feriefond), Denmark -- 5 Social Tourism and the Social Economy -- Social Tourism in France: A Considerable Economic Player -- The Origins of Social Tourism in France -- The Implementation of a Fordist Form of Social Tourism -- Holiday Villages: Professionalisation and Standardisation -- The Beginning of Competition, Resistance and Innovation -- Conclusions: Social Tourism and the French Model: A Cultural Exception.

Case Study 5: Floreal (Joie et Vacances), Belgium -- 6 Mobilities and Social Exclusion: Towards a Research Agenda -- The Mobilities Paradigm -- Leisure, Social Inequalities and Mobilities -- Children's Mobilities -- Conclusions -- Case Study 6: The Sunshine Fund, Ireland -- 7 The Welfare Society and Tourism: European Perspectives -- Access to Leisure Travel as Welfare -- The Welfare State in Europe -- International Differences in Access to Holidays -- Models of Social Tourism in Europe -- The Evolution of Social Tourism under State Socialism -- Conclusions -- Case Study 7: Polish Tourist Country-Lovers' Society (Polskie Towarzystwo Turystyczno-Krajoznawcze, PTTK) -- 8 The Family Factor in Social Tourism -- The Representation of Family Diversity in Tourism Research -- The Significance of Free-Time Activity in Family Life -- The Parameters of Diversity in Contemporary 'Family' -- Responding to Diversity in Family Research in Tourism Studies -- Conclusions -- Case Study 8: The Family Fund, UK -- 9 Disability, Representation and Access to Tourism -- Policy Contexts: Empowering the Disabled Tourist -- The Holiday Experiences of People with Disabilities -- The Embodiment and the Representation of People with Disabilities in Tourism Marketing -- Travellers with Disabilities, Co-creation and Co-production -- Conclusions -- Case Study 9: Cooperative Social Society (Consorzio Sociale, COIN), Italy -- 10 Social Tourism and Sustainability -- Sustainable Tourism -- Social Tourism and Sustainability -- Naturefriends: Origins in Social and Sustainable Tourism -- Sustainability Challenges for Social Tourism -- Conclusions -- Case Study 10: European Union Federation of Youth Hostel Associations (EUFED) -- 11 Conclusions and Future Research Issues -- Looking Back -- Moving Forward -- Index.