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Travel and Society Essay

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Travel and Society Essay

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Table of ContentsESSAY: TOURISM AND SOCIETY.............................................................................................1REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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ESSAY: TOURISM AND SOCIETYTravel and Tourism is worldwide phenomenon contributing to economy, job creation andrevenues from export. Travel is basically moving from one place to another at distant locations.It can be a global trip with or without luggage. By foot, bicycle, bus, train or air-plane can be anymeans to move from one place to another. Short staying at places are part of travel (King, 2014).Tourism is travelling for pleasure or business, travelling can be global or within the geographicalboundaries of the country. Touring is attracting people from world, but commonly tourism isholiday act only.Tourism now-a-days is major source of income for any economy, it has implications onbalance of payments on both sides, incoming or outgoing. Volunteer tourism is rapidly growingin United-Kingdom, a western phenomenon who travel across the globe to aid people who areincapable of travelling and countering inequalities of globe.According to Keith Hollingshead tourism is 'representative business of variationprojection'. Or it is an interpretive vehicle of 'othering' par excellence, explaining tourism asattracting point for customers in terms of well-bounded cultures individually celebratingthemselves. Pictures and their specifications are crucial to this process of representing thedestinations to tourists. Stylistically stereotyped images are used by those offering tourismCulture tourism focus upon the desires of tourists i.e. experience to otherness. Travelleris involved in given country's culture or region. In other words, it is the study of lifestyle ofpeople of that particular geographical region. Tourism in urban areas is cultural tourism,especially large and historic cities and museums and theatres at such places. Even soglobalisation and modernisation are tremendously undermining the society for absolute cultureindividualism. Under circumstances the authenticity of Otherness as experience became acontested reality in terms of societal culture. Most of the destinations offering tourism are facingare challenge of fear of being exposed as unauthentic otherness. (Gärling, Ettema and Friman,2014).In the concept of Otherness there is convergence in different scholars, alternativelyconstrued as 'applying principle that enables to classify individuals into hierarchical groups.Some behave too differently and some look too differently called 'them' and 'us'. Some aredifferent qualitatively and different in terms of experience.1
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