The consumption of tourism under postmodernity or liquid modernity (original) (raw)

New trends in tourism? From globalization to postmodernism

2016

Tourism, as any other massive phenomenon has suffered a deep change tightly linked to social change, where internet and social media are playing an important role. Tourism has changed both in form and contents. While in the past tourism was some kind of elitist activity (high cost and culture) nowadays it has become a mass tourism/entertainment (low cost and culture) that, though fragmented, is presenting new trends within the tourism/travel industry and leisure activity all over the world where Europe is not an exception. From a quantitative perspective, an overview of the international new and traditional tourism trends are presented in this article. This new tourism is turning into a new social phenomenon in complete transformation, where outbound travel market is offering new possibilities for emergent countries, and where new forms of tourism are appearing, supported by a flourishing tourism/travel industry. From the qualitative point of view, this paper brings into considerati...

A Critique of the Touristic Phenomenon

This is a paper I wrote for a course work and hence it is not very elaborate but I have tried for arguing and developing an insight on a post-modernist phenomenon called "Tourism". Though I develop a critique of the touristic experience but my aim is to locate culturally a common individual in the neo-liberal society. The conclusion of this paper is short due to limitations but there is a lot that could be said once the crux of the arguments is understood. I leave it to the readers to understand where they belong in this discourse.