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A vacation from capitalism; what happens when the ‘mass tourist’ goes native?

Author :	Amy Savener
School/Work Place :	Indiana University, United States
Contact :	savener@indiana.edu
Year :	2015

Philosophical and theoretical debates in tourism must be situated not just within economic and cultural contexts, but also political and social ones (Ataljevic, Pritchard & Morgan, 2007). Tourism is more than an ‘industry,’ Freya Higgins-Desbiolles argues, but a means for people to learn, to connect with others, for estranged cultures to learn about each other and even, to validate and encourage world peace (Higgens-Desbiolles, 2006).

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Tag :: sustainable tourism; intercultural communication; mass tourism; host communities; cognitive learning

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