Tourism - An activity undertaken by a "tourist" who is a temporarily leisured person who voluntarily visits a place away from home for the purpose of experiencing a change (Valene Smith)
Graburn - Tourism is a secular ritual where tourism and leisure stand in opposition to home and work. Thus "ritual theory" proposes that there are "push" and "pull" factors in tourism.
The work/home (sacred) and travel/leisure (profane) phases alternate in most people's lives, and these mark our rites of passages as suggested by Arnold Van Gnepp
Eric Cohen - Phenomenology of Tourism
1. Tourists (existentialists) who get enamored and stay back in the sites they visit
2. Tourists (experimentalists) who go out of their way in tourist sites to explore and experiement foreign cultures, but will eventually return home
3. Tourists (experiential) who are only looking for a temporary change in their lifestyle, never doubt their return to their home/work, and do not venture to try new experiences in the tourist site
Dean MacCannell:
Urban and suburban middle class people are aware that their everyday life is without meaning and overtly artificial. Hence, they seek out "authenticity" in "other" places. This is the primary motivation for tourism --a search for authenticity.
This follows David Lowenthal's argument that "past is a foreign country".
But today's package tourists understand modernity's nostalgia for pre-modern and "stage authenticity" to please the tourists. In this, tourists looking for authenticity only get to see "staged authenticity".
Different kinds of front-back regions: one where authenticity of staged for tourists in varying degrees, and one which is the real back stage.. where locals go about their everyday life accepting the presence of tourists as a part of regional scenery. But only few people try to go to the original backstage.
*incomplete review*
Graburn - Tourism is a secular ritual where tourism and leisure stand in opposition to home and work. Thus "ritual theory" proposes that there are "push" and "pull" factors in tourism.
The work/home (sacred) and travel/leisure (profane) phases alternate in most people's lives, and these mark our rites of passages as suggested by Arnold Van Gnepp
Eric Cohen - Phenomenology of Tourism
1. Tourists (existentialists) who get enamored and stay back in the sites they visit
2. Tourists (experimentalists) who go out of their way in tourist sites to explore and experiement foreign cultures, but will eventually return home
3. Tourists (experiential) who are only looking for a temporary change in their lifestyle, never doubt their return to their home/work, and do not venture to try new experiences in the tourist site
Dean MacCannell:
Urban and suburban middle class people are aware that their everyday life is without meaning and overtly artificial. Hence, they seek out "authenticity" in "other" places. This is the primary motivation for tourism --a search for authenticity.
This follows David Lowenthal's argument that "past is a foreign country".
But today's package tourists understand modernity's nostalgia for pre-modern and "stage authenticity" to please the tourists. In this, tourists looking for authenticity only get to see "staged authenticity".
Different kinds of front-back regions: one where authenticity of staged for tourists in varying degrees, and one which is the real back stage.. where locals go about their everyday life accepting the presence of tourists as a part of regional scenery. But only few people try to go to the original backstage.
*incomplete review*
No comments:
Post a Comment