The Cultures of Tourism
From origins to global phenomenon
This international seminar goes back to the origins of tourism to understand how we have come to constitute a tourist society and what imaginaries we have created around this distinctly contemporary experience.
Anatomy of Tourism: Impacts of Tourist Culture
Pau Obrador, Raquel Huete and Francesc Muñoz
Beyond the values and experiences of tourist subjects, looking inside tourist cultures entails thinking about mobility and borders, landscape and resources, praise and protest, imaginaries and strategies, agents and governance. Contemporary tourism goes beyond limits that were unimaginable ...
Genesis of the Culture of Tourism: From Grand Tour to Low Cost
Alicia Fuentes Vega, Marco d'Eramo and Cristina Arribas Sánchez
Travelling was originally related with privilege and social status but it also into a frequently disparaged mass activity. If, in the early experiences, a sense of prestige, ostentation, and personal freedom predominated, what values are associated with tourism today? This panel explores the ...
The Touristified Gaze: From Cultural Tourism to Commodification of Culture
Hazel Andrews, Noel B. Salazar and Fabiola Mancinelli
How does what is local, singular, and symbolic for a community come to be a resource to be consumed by globetrotter tourists? The seminar begins with a panel discussion about how culture becomes a market product or, in other words, an inquiry into cultural commodification by the tourist industry, and how, despite this, the search for authenticity among tourists persists.