Rethinking mobilities: is tourism dying?

The present essay-review explores the conceptual limitations of mobility as an all encompassing theory, which explains why thousand of citizens are unable to make tourism worldwide. Imagining tourism as a massindustry not only rests on a great fallacy but also ignores the effects of last financial c...

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Autores:
Korstanje, Maximiliano
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2015
Institución:
Universidad Externado de Colombia
Repositorio:
Biblioteca Digital Universidad Externado de Colombia
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:bdigital.uexternado.edu.co:001/10248
Acceso en línea:
https://bdigital.uexternado.edu.co/handle/001/10248
https://doi.org/10.18601/01207555.n16.07
Palabra clave:
Mobilities
criticism
tourism
anxieties
consuming
Rights
openAccess
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http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
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Summary:The present essay-review explores the conceptual limitations of mobility as an all encompassing theory, which explains why thousand of citizens are unable to make tourism worldwide. Imagining tourism as a massindustry not only rests on a great fallacy but also ignores the effects of last financial crisis in global economies. Only less 1% of total population in the world has the necessary resources to vacation abroad. We need to rethink  mobilities in terms of the great asymmetries caused by capitalism, where behaviour of few  ones is ideologically presented as the guiding values to follow. Like chivalry in Middle Age, mobility and tourism are privileges for global mobile elite alone.