The Ethics of Sightseeing /

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Is travel inherently beneficial to human character? Does it automatically educate and enlighten while also promoting tolerance, peace, and understanding? In this challenging book, Dean MacCannell identifies and overcomes common obstacles to ethical sightseeing. Through his unique combination of pers...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: MacCannell, Dean (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, England : University of California Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Hospitality, Travel & Tourism.
Visites touristiques > Aspect moral.
Sightseeing business > Moral and ethical aspects.
Tourism > Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: I was a tourist at Freud House, London
  • Tourist/Other and the unconscious
  • Stage authenticity today
  • Why sightseeing?
  • Toward an ethics of sightseeing
  • Trips and their reason
  • The tourist in the urban symbolic
  • Looking through the landscape
  • An imaginary symbolic: from Piranesi to Disney
  • The touristic attitude: acceding to the imaginary
  • The Bilbao effect: ethical symbolic representation
  • Painful memory
  • The intentional structure of tourist imagery
  • Tourist agency
  • Appendix: tourism as a moral field.

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