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Daniel Boorstin calls places like American superhighways and the Istanbul Hilton “pseudo”, a hopeful appellation that suggests that they are insubstantial or transitory, which they are not.
It also suggests that somewhere in tourist settings there are real events accessible to intellectual elites, and perhaps there are.
I have argued that a more helpful way of approaching the same facts is in terms of a modification of Erving Goffman’s model of everyday life activities.
Specifically, I have suggested that for the study of tourist settings front and back be treated as ideal poles of a continuum,
poles linked by a series of front regions decorated to appear as back regions, and back regions set up to accommodate outsiders.
I have suggested the term stage setting for these intermediary types of social space, but there is no need to be rigid about the matter of the name of this place,
so long as its structural features and their influences on ideas are understood.
I have claimed that the structure of this social space is intimately linked to touristic attitudes and I want to pursue this.
The touristic way of getting in with the natives is to enter into a quest for authentic experiences, perceptions and insights.
The quest for authenticity is marked off in stage corresponds to back.
Movement from stage to stage corresponds to growing touristic understanding.
This continuum is sufficiently developed in some areas of the world that it appears as an infinite regression of stage sets.
Once in this manifold, the tourist is trapped. His road does not end abruptly in some conversion process that transforms him into
Boorstin’s ”traveler ” “working at something” as he breaks the bounds of all hat is pseudo and penetrates, finally, into a real region.
It also suggests that somewhere in tourist settings there are real events accessible to intellectual elites, and perhaps there are.
I have argued that a more helpful way of approaching the same facts is in terms of a modification of Erving Goffman’s model of everyday life activities.
Specifically, I have suggested that for the study of tourist settings front and back be treated as ideal poles of a continuum,
poles linked by a series of front regions decorated to appear as back regions, and back regions set up to accommodate outsiders.
I have suggested the term stage setting for these intermediary types of social space, but there is no need to be rigid about the matter of the name of this place,
so long as its structural features and their influences on ideas are understood.
I have claimed that the structure of this social space is intimately linked to touristic attitudes and I want to pursue this.
The touristic way of getting in with the natives is to enter into a quest for authentic experiences, perceptions and insights.
The quest for authenticity is marked off in stage corresponds to back.
Movement from stage to stage corresponds to growing touristic understanding.
This continuum is sufficiently developed in some areas of the world that it appears as an infinite regression of stage sets.
Once in this manifold, the tourist is trapped. His road does not end abruptly in some conversion process that transforms him into
Boorstin’s ”traveler ” “working at something” as he breaks the bounds of all hat is pseudo and penetrates, finally, into a real region.
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