%0 Journal Article %T THE D.I.Y. TOURIST %A Tullio Romita %A Antonella Perri %J Tourismos : an International Multidisciplinary Journal of Tourism %D 2011 %I University of the Aegean %X In this work we will be dealing with the figure of the D.I.Y. Tourist originated from the local development processes based on the ˇ°cottage tourist industryˇ± concept. We will be doing this by using part of the results obtained through a research started more than three years ago, by which we are studying what happens in the territorial contexts where tourism develops mostly on a spontaneous basis, that is in the presence of a widespread and pervasive undetected tourism practiced through private accommodation and mostly self-managed. %K spontaneous tourist context %K D.I.Y. Tourist %K sustainable tourism %K undetected tourism %U http://www.chios.aegean.gr/tourism/VOLUME_6_No2_art16.pdf