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Anti-tourism

Encyclopedia of Tourism

More than a well-defined movement, anti-tourism is above all an intellectual attitude. Though the number of tourists has increased by leaps and bounds over the years, the practice is not universally welcome. Opposing views expose the risks it may unleash while urging the public at large or the authorities to take effective action to control and regulate it. Therefore, it is a multilayered notion or practice with dissimilar intellectual interests and divergent proposals.

One of its strands takes issue with the banality of tourism as opposed to responsible travel. Already in 1865, there were complaints of Italian cities being deluged by groups of tourists corralled by a sheepdog-like guide. According to Boorstin, “vacation travel [has become] a mass-produced, packaged commodity” (1974:485). Untold numbers of tourism scholars have leveled similar critiques since the early days, proposing new products or alternatives to dodge the alleged trivialization of travel. Often as well, disabuse...

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  1. School of Tourism & Hospitality Management, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dalian, Liaoning, People’s Republic of China

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Aramberri, J. (2015). Anti-tourism. In: Jafari, J., Xiao, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Tourism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01669-6_508-1

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