TY - JOUR 
A1 - Briggs, Daniel 
AU - Tutenges, Sébastien
T1 - Risk and transgression on holiday: 'new experiences' and the pied piper of excessive consumption
Y1 - 2014
SN - 17590442
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11268/3792
AB - When British youth spend holiday abroad, they tend to engage in increased consumption of alcohol, drugs, violence and unprotected sex - collectively known as 'risk' behaviours. While numerous epidemiological studies have documented the extent of these risk behaviours in places like the Balearic Islands, few have taken a phenomenological approach with the participants who go there - to find out how they experience and attribute meaning to their transgressions on holiday. Our research reports on this matter and is based on ethnographic data collected in 2009, 2010 and 2011. We argue that individual and group holiday ambitions for a 'blow out' are actively complemented by aggressive commercial forces, which seek to capitalise on consumer spending, thus assisting in the production of risk. We show how this works by reporting from the resort of San Antonio, Ibiza.
KW - Drogas
KW - Alcohol
KW - Alcoholismo
KW - Estupefaciente
LA - eng
ER -