Problem with tourists and tourism is that this industry viewes places as an aggregate of tourist attractions, looking for of cultural differences and local identities while the tourist cannot keep track of historical transformations without critical opinion except when it comes to personal comfort.
Tourism migrates cultures and changes traditions. The mass of the tourist globalisation supersede cultural diversity and standardise tourist experiences.
Through its 'needs', the industry oftenly creates monuments, events and custums, reshapes the environment to be touristically validated. The growing volume of tourism also speeds up the process of monumentalization. Inherited architectural and artistic styles, political prejudices, religious myths and traditional customs are no longer meant to be transcended but touristically consumed without consideration.
Heritage tourism, eco tourism and cultural tourism are just self-pretend cleverly labeled modern tourist products, invented just as all other before them ( exotic travel, adventure travel …).
We are going through the stage of Total tourism which transforms drug dealers shooting at each other or any other social phenomena in an exciting tourist scene and usable 'product'.
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yes, tourism does do all of this, but, it is largly based on the images that are created. this determines where the tourism industry will go later. when somthing is made into an image through tourism, it automaticly becomes important, apart of the spectical.
not only does it speed up processes that are already in play, such as the political prejudicesthat you talk about, but also creates new monuments and things that would not normally be a tourist attaction. not only does it alter the enviroment around the attraction, like you stated, but it alters the idelogical enviroment around the attraction. this creates a new form of visual language.
kristina maskarin wrote:
> Problem with tourists and tourism is that this industry viewes places
> as an aggregate of tourist attractions, looking for of cultural
> differences and local identities while the tourist cannot keep track
> of historical transformations without critical opinion except when it
> comes to personal comfort.
>
> Tourism migrates cultures and changes traditions. The mass of the
> tourist globalisation supersede cultural diversity and standardise
> tourist experiences.
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> Through its 'needs', the industry oftenly creates monuments, events
> and custums, reshapes the environment to be touristically validated.
> The growing volume of tourism also speeds up the process of
> monumentalization. Inherited architectural and artistic styles,
> political prejudices, religious myths and traditional customs are no
> longer meant to be transcended but touristically consumed without
> consideration.
> Heritage tourism, eco tourism and cultural tourism are just
> self-pretend cleverly labeled modern tourist products, invented just
> as all other before them ( exotic travel, adventure travel …).
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> We are going through the stage of Total tourism which transforms drug
> dealers shooting at each other or any other social phenomena in an
> exciting tourist scene and usable 'product'.
>
> http://www.urban-island.org
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Louis Christian wrote:
> yes, tourism does do all of this, but, it is largly based on the
> images that are created. this determines where the tourism industry
> will go later. when somthing is made into an image through tourism, it
> automaticly becomes important, apart of the spectical.
> not only does it speed up processes that are already in play, such as
> the political prejudicesthat you talk about, but also creates new
> monuments and things that would not normally be a tourist attaction.
> not only does it alter the enviroment around the attraction, like you
> stated, but it alters the idelogical enviroment around the attraction.
> this creates a new form of visual language.
Very true. It all melts down to a good 'product' design, but it has to deal responsibly with the people and environment. Fashionable outward 'good looks' do not always guarantee that these will be respected or cared for. I live on such an touristy place and beside being an artist, run a small travel agency myself. I am higly concerened with the overruning of the way of life and environment that is happening in the last decades; seems we are all ( tourist and hosts alike) falling under the tyrany of happiness, perpetual event-making and artificial paradises.