What is tourism's history?

Towner, John

doi:10.1016/0261-5177(95)00032-j

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“…For rural people, outings were mostly limited to brief trips to nearby market towns, for urbanites, to excursions into the surrounding countryside. But, as Towner (1995) has pointed out, for people of limited mobility even a short trip from home might have offered novel experiences. Outings might also have provided relief or escape from constrains of daily life, or an outlet for (illicit) activities, proscribed at home.…”

Section: Pre-modern Discretionary Travel In Emerging Regionsmentioning

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A mobilities approach to tourism from emerging world regions

Cohen

2014

Current Issues in Tourism

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Increasing numbers of people from the emerging world regions, Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East engage in tourism practices at domestic, intra-regional and long-haul international scales. In this article we deploy an innovative application of the mobilities approach, which we argue moves beyond the Eurocentrism implicit in modernist tourism studies, in a comparative analysis of tourism in and from these regions and those in the 'West'. Our analysis opens up the systematic study of tourism in emerging world regions in terms of the mobilities paradigm, and concludes: one, travel had a multiplicity of origins in societies in the emerging regions, but most did not possess an equivalent emic term to 'tourism.' Two, tourism at domestic and intraregional levels tends to be entangled with other discretionary mobilities, whereas the long-haul level is more differentiated. Three, the development of domestic discretionary travel in emerging regions can be represented by four overlapping 'mobility constellations'. Four, there are significant historical differences between the regions in their long-haul mobility constellations, although their kinetic hierarchies are all still steep. Five, forms of movement and associated practices of discretionary travellers from the emerging regions and Western countries became increasingly similar under the impact of socio-technological, economic and cultural globalisation. Six, differences between the emerging regions, particularly Asia, and the West are most salient on the emic level of representations of international travel: the specific cultural motive forces for tourism do not centre on authenticity-seeking, but are instead bound up with prestige and markers of modernity.

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Section: Pre-modern Discretionary Travel In Emerging Regionsmentioning

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A mobilities approach to tourism from emerging world regions

Cohen

2014

Current Issues in Tourism

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“…The conventional view of tourism's history is that of an emerging western cultural construction. While Towner (1995) and others have compellingly argued that this westerncentric, 'colonial' view of tourism history requires considerable revision, it is nonetheless enlightening to look at how tourism is conceived through this cultural lens. From this perspective, tourism history is the story of how an elite upper class developed a new form of human experience based on travel to prestigious destinations.…”

Section: Deconstructing Tourismmentioning

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The Trouble with Tourism

Hollenhorst¹,

Mackenzie²,

Ostergren³

2014

Tourism Recreation Research

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The hegemonic view of tourism is as a global panacea for struggling peoples, environments and economies (Smith and Brent 2001). This article begins by arguing that increasing worldwide risks from human-induced climate change fundamentally alter the veracity of this prediction claim. As one of the world's largest industries, tourism is also one of the largest emitters of carbon, primarily from air transport. Far from standing apart from our carbon-dependent economy, tourism is quite profoundly a creation of that economy and cannot be an antidote to the very stuff of which it is made. Further, to the extent that tourism functions as escape from the ills of petroleum-driven life, it detracts critical attention and investment from home places and communities. The article concludes with a proposition for an alternative futures forecast based on bioregional tourism, or locavism. Characteristics of a locavist approach include the de-growth of the high-carbon, distant travel model of tourism and replacement with a low-carbon model that emphasizes local destinations, short distances, lower-carbon transport modes, and capital investment (both financial and social) in local communities.

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“…By comparison, there is a relative neglect of historical scholarship in local tourism studies, a trend which appears to reflect the broader underdevelopment of historical tourism research on the international stage (Towner and Wall 1991;Towner 1995;Walton 2003). For one local historian, the "history of tourism in South Africa has remained a largely uncharted field" and the "paucity of the number of explicit historical contributions stands in contradistinction to the burgeoning work on the geographic patterns, economics and development of tourism in South Africa since 1990" (Grundlingh 2006: 104).…”

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From Liquor to Leisure: The Changing South African Hotel Industry 1928–1968

Rogerson

2011

Urban Forum

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What is tourism's history?

Cited by 57 publications

References 6 publications

A mobilities approach to tourism from emerging world regions

A mobilities approach to tourism from emerging world regions

The Trouble with Tourism

From Liquor to Leisure: The Changing South African Hotel Industry 1928–1968

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