Representations of International Tourism in the Social Sciences: Sun, Sex, Sights, Savings, and Servility

Crick, Malcolm

doi:10.1146/annurev.an.18.100189.001515

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“…Whether this search accords with conventional idealised rationalisations for the encouragement of tourism is another matter: it is claimed that tourism broadens the mind, breaks down ignorance of other cultures, and so on. This is unlikely, if at all, to be the case (Crick, 1989;MacCanncll, L989). Places are not marketed by capitalist enterprises with these intentions in mind, although they may be part of advertising campaigns run by state-funded national tourism organisations.…”

Section: The Commodification Of Placementioning

confidence: 97%

“…The highly publicised and politically charged return of Uluni to its Aborigine owners has strengthened the Rock as a tourist attraction as it is now more than ever a manifestly sacred and mystical site to Aborigines* By having contact with Aborigines as tour guides, park rangers, artisans, or simply as part of the backdrop to the monolith, the tourist experience is more 'meaningful' and 'authentic'. There is little pretence, however, that the transitory experience is remotely capable of breaking down myths, misconceptions, and prejudices held by White Australia about Aborigines (Fiske et al, 1987), Tourism has in fact been interpreted as a mechanism of internal colonialism as far as 'fourth world* peoples like the Aborigine, Maori, Innuit, and Indian are concerned (Crick, 1989).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Tourism, Capital, and Place: Towards a Critical Geography of Tourism

1991

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Travel and tourism has become one of the largest industrial complexes and item of consumption in modern Western economies. It is argued here that, to date, geographers studying tourism have done so without fully grasping the fact that tourism is an important avenue of capitalist accumulation. I contend that if this weakness is rectified the geographic analysis of tourism could provide important contributions to contemporary debates in geography, In an attempt to integrate critical theory and political economy into the study of tourism, two themes are developed: the capitalistic nature of most travel and tourism production and consumption; and the contribution of tourism to the analysis of territorial competition and economic restructuring. The core of the argument presented is that the study of tourism assists us to recognise how the social meaning and materiality of space and place is created, and how these representations of place are explicitly incorporated into the accumulation process. To understand how tourism is involved in this, we need a thcorisation that recognises, and unveils, tourism as a capitalistically organised activity driven by the inherent and defining social dynamics of that system, with its attendant production, social, and ideological relations.

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Section: The Commodification Of Placementioning

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Tourism, Capital, and Place: Towards a Critical Geography of Tourism

1991

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“…Representations are a form of commercial exchange in cultural tourism (Crick, 1989) designed to be understood by tourists in light of their own social-specific contexts, a vehicle for marketing that caters to sentiments of escape and the exotic. Touristic representations become associated with economic and social power as tourists' and local residents' cultural identity, expectations and experiences become entwined in complex relationships that blur boundaries and autonomy.…”

Section: Touristic Representationsmentioning

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Rukai indigenous tourism: Representations, cultural identity and Q method

Hunter

2011

Tourism Management

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“…In the social sciences, however, tourism was not taken seriously as a subject for research, as we see in the personal histories of pioneer tourism researchers (Nash, 2007;Crick, 1989). Among anthropologists, this area of research made its debut quite recently.…”

Section: The Anthropology Of Tourismmentioning

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Tourism

Yamashita¹

2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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Tourism has become a tremendously important phenomenon in the contemporary world. This article deals with the sociocultural implications of tourism from an anthropological point of view. After presenting the general framework of the anthropology of tourism, the article examines various aspects of the phenomenon of tourism: the tourist, the tourist experience, the host society, 'touristic culture' or the culture produced by tourism, and sustainability in tourist development. The article concludes by suggesting the future.

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Representations of International Tourism in the Social Sciences: Sun, Sex, Sights, Savings, and Servility

Cited by 499 publications

References 45 publications

Tourism, Capital, and Place: Towards a Critical Geography of Tourism

Tourism, Capital, and Place: Towards a Critical Geography of Tourism

Rukai indigenous tourism: Representations, cultural identity and Q method

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