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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: MacCannell, Dean (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley, Calif. ; London, England : University of California Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Tourism > Moral and ethical aspects.
Sightseeing business > Moral and ethical aspects.
Visites touristiques > Aspect moral.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Hospitality, Travel & Tourism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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