Travel as Performed Art

Tourist Photography and the Reverse Gaze

“…Before modern times, the Grand Tour was based on learning languages, speaking to locals, and gathering facts (Chaney 1998). But during the 18th century, the emphasis of tourism shifted from the ear to the eye (Adler, 1989). The ascendancy of vision within tourism, as with other realms of modernity (e.g., Foucault 1977), has been associated with power relations.…”

Television, Tourism, and Rural Life

“…The use of performance as a metaphor for tourist practice has become a focus of attention in the critical tourism studies literature in recent years (see, for example, Adler 1989;MacCannell 1992;Chaney 1993;Edensor, 1998;Mordue 2005;Quinn 2007). Although this is a relatively new line of analysis it is rooted in social constructionism and underpinned by the seminal works of authors such as Blumer (1937) and Goffman (1959) on "symbolic interactionism", which refers to how "human interaction is mediated by the use of symbols, by interpretation, or by ascertaining the meaning of one another"s actions" (Blumer, 1937: 8).…”

Framing learning conditions in geography excursions

“…Adler (1989) has shown the development of this specialized way of seeing from the beginning of the 16 th Century and onwards, based on technologies as the camera obscura, the Claude glass, guide books, the spread of knowledges of routes, the art of sketching, photography and so on (Ousby, 1990). Places could thus be visited and consumed by looking at a distance in what Urry (1994, p. 7) calls: "…visual consumption".…”