Tourism in rural settings – alliances, conflicts and cultural change

The firsk edition of this paper was written for a seminary at Institute for Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin – Madison, May 1991. The main purpose of this paper is to present the approach of a research project, started in 1991. When the paper was written, we had neither data nor conclusions to present, but we wanted to establish contact with researchers abroad working within this field. Accordingly, the paper was presented in Madison. The paper refers some publications, which are relevant to the research project. Furthermore some theoretical