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...
- Autores:
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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
- License
- http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
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. |
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