The division of the continuum into a number of typical combinations of novelty and familiarity a
typology of tourist experience
and roles:the Organized Mass
Tourist,the Individual Mass Tourist,the Explorer,the Drifter.On the one hand,as the numbers of mass tourists grow,the tourist industry will become more and more mechanized and standardized.This,in turn,will tend to make the interaction between tourist and host even more routinized.The effect of the host
societies on the mass tourist will therefore remain limited,whereas his effect on the ecology,division of labor,and wealth of the societies will grow as his numbers do.The impacts of mass tourism,if not controlled and regulated,might help to destroy whatever there is still left of unspoiled nature and of traditional ways of life.On the other hand,as host societies become permeated by a wide variety of individually traveling tourists belonging to different classes and ways of life,increased and more varied social contacts will take place.The effects of such developments may well be to diminish the significance of regional boundaries.