By Melanie K. Smith
Combining a rigorous and educational theoretical framework with functional case experiences and real-life examples, tasks and tasks from either the built and constructing international, this wide-ranging but distinct ebook examines the phenomenon of cultural tourism in its broadest feel. It explores many concerns together with, among others: the improvement of cultural tourism and its affects sustainable cultural tourism guidelines the position of cultural tourism in city regeneration the organizational framework of eu cultural tourism. moreover, person chapters make connection with the issues of exclusion and discrimination. Drawing on post-modern views, this informative textual content emphasizes the significance of renowned cultural tourism, replacement or ethnic tourism, and that of operating category background and tradition. It specializes in the function cultural tourism performs within the globalization technique and the affects of worldwide improvement on tradition, traditions and id, specifically for nearby, ethnic and minority teams. It argues that the long run improvement and administration of cultural tourism depends upon a better measure of mutual figuring out among the sectors interested by its improvement, and on extra conversation, whether it is to be sustainable, integrative and democratic.
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They are also symbols of increasing globalisation. ’ Ritzer and Liska (1997) suggest that their homogenising omnipresence – the ‘McDonaldisation’ and McDisneyisation’ of the world – has undermined somewhat the fundamental reason for tourism, which is to experience something new and different. ’ Theme parks, shopping malls, fast food have all become part and parcel of the same postmodern consumption experience. They cite Barber (1995: 97) who summarises the concept of ‘McWorld’ as: an entertainment shopping experience that brings together malls, multiplex movie theatres, theme parks, spectator sports arenas, fast-food chains (with their endless movie tie-ins), and television (with its burgeoning shopping networks) into a single vast enterprise that, on the way to maximising its profits, transforms human beings.
However, many tourists still crave the enhancement rather than the avoidance of self, particularly cultural tourists. They subscribe to Nietzsche’s view of travel that it should be 34 • Reconceptualising cultural tourism a constant process of knowledge-seeking and self-improvement. This would, of course, conform to the rationale behind the Grand Tour of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which was predominantly an educational and cultural experience. Many modern-day cultural package tours appear to emulate this philosophy.
Interested in ‘hyper-real’ experiences. • Acceptance of representations and simulacra. The cultural tourist • Keen on personal displacement and the notion of ‘travelling’. • Actively seeking difference. • • • • • • Seeking objective authenticity in cultural experiences. Concerned with existential authenticity and enhancement of self. Earnest interaction with destinations and inhabitants. May have idealised expectations of places and people. Interested in ‘real’ experiences. Disdain for representations and simulacra.