Understanding Tourism Practices in the Concepts of Social Space

Abstract

This article is devoted to consideration of concepts of social space in the context of tourism practices. The author analyzes tourism as a special field of social space, explores the phenomenon of tourist mobility, seen as the development of space-time, when it creates a particular spatial mobility - «new mobility», where displacement cease to be collective, and become individual and private. The role of tourism in the modern society is very important, besides the fact that it is the perception of the cultural heritage. Tourism is also a vital tool of transformation of social space. In the process of mastering of various social spaces and places tourists overcome constraints acting in community cultural models and become agents broadcast, production, distribution, development of innovative socio-cultural information.