Tourist Cultures
Introducing the Cultures of Tourism




                                      Hyelan Jung
People travel for pleasure.




to learn about other people and cultures
              to gain insight into the self
                         to take a holiday
travel/tourism research



                                issue change



           tourism types
                                                 nature of the
         tourist motivation                    tourist experience

  nature of the power relationships

          tourism industry                      formation in the
                                                  travel space
      consequences of tourism
travel/tourism research
- from Macro to Micro
- considering the context
- multidisciplinary


                                   macro level

                       political      social     economic

                                   micro level
                                   experiences
                                   perceptions
                                    activities
useful starting point




for prioritizing the experiences and interactions of tourism is to move
    from understanding the tourist in terms of the gazing flaneur, to
                     imagining the tourist as an interacting choraster
research approach about tourism
tourism = social & cultural phenomenon




‘quintessential feature of mass consumer culture and modern life’
study of tourism
        4 tourism platforms (Jafari, 1989)


1   2




4   3
Knowledge-based analysis
focused on authenticity, strangerhood, play, conflict
tourism as conflict >>



                                                       ‘arena of interaction’
flaneur
original meaning of flaneur
flaneur in tourism
flaneur in tourism




    passive and placatory
choraster
choraster
choraster
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