Existential Tourism

Bhalla, Rohan; Agarwal, Sumedha

doi:10.4337/9781800377486.existential.tourism

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“…Many studies have considered how existential frameworks can create new understandings of travellers' sense of self, e.g., [22][23][24]. In 1979, Cohen first defined existential traditions in tourism as a "form of tourism in which a tourist travels in search of a personal or spiritual centre located beyond their immediate place of residence" [25]. Since then, tourism scholars have explored the application of existential authenticity and related notions of existential anxiety and alienation in studying traveller behaviour, e.g., [26][27][28][29].…”

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Space Tourism: A Historical and Existential Perspective

Schweinsberg,

Fennell

2023

Sustainability

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The growth of space tourism over recent decades has led to calls to formalise its ethical positioning and sustainability credentials in the eyes of society. With tourism ethics frameworks typically developing according to human-centred viewpoints, how might we develop ethical reference points for future space tourism when technological innovation progresses to the extent where we are exploring the unknown? To explore the unknown, we have conducted a colonial reflection on the behaviour and attitudes of Captain James Cook and the crew of HMS Endeavour when they visited Australia in 1770. From a methodological perspective, we have drawn on extracts from the voyage journals, examining the information that they provide through the lens of existentialism. Through this examination we explore some of the challenges that future space tourists might face being authentic to themselves when exploring the unknown. This includes the challenges in avoiding ‘bad faith’ in our dealings with other life-forms and the abdication of our own personal responsibility to act in a manner which is ethical.

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