Key Concepts in Anthropology and Tourism: An Analysis Report

This report, prepared for the TM6110 Anthropology and Tourism module, offers an in-depth analysis of the field, focusing on the interplay between anthropology and tourism. It begins with a literature review, exploring various perspectives on tourism from tourists, businesses, and local communities, emphasizing the cultural and social dimensions of tourism and tourist behavior. The report highlights the significance of anthropological studies in understanding tourism's impact on host societies, power dynamics, and cultural modifications. The report also examines the contributions of scholars in understanding the impacts of tourism on both tourists and local communities, and how these concepts can be applied to various aspects of tourism. The conclusion reinforces the importance of tourism and its cultural impacts, and how tourism industries are evolving to meet changing demands. The references section provides a list of sources used to support the analysis.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Literature Review...................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
Anthropology and Tourism is a concerned with cultural nature and social nature of
tourism, also tourist's behaviour. In they offer penetration in socio cultural dimensions. Tourists
based on international in second half of twentieth century begin to visit locations and places
which are anthropologist had carried their field work. The communication between local people
and tourists are offers new way of anthropologist inquiry (Nogués-Pedregal, 2019). Tourism
industries in traditionally, anthropology tended to deal with effects of tourism on local people's
cultural, lifestyles and traditions. Below report includes Literature review of some author's view
of point. The main aim of this report is to focus on culture through the tourism and its concept as
well as the importance of key concept of anthropology of tourism.
Literature Review
Perspectives of tourism may be recognized from the tourist, commercial enterprise
operator who offering items and services, authorities of the host vacation spot place and the
neighbourhood community. The first organization is the travellers or visitors. They are the
organization who look for diverse tour reviews and pride bodily and psychologically. The nature
and notion through this organization of humans will particularly decide the locations selected
through them and the activities to have.
Anthropology and tourism show a culture of place and mostly people are attracted
towards different cultures. Tourism sector assist in spread values and awareness about place to
those who take interest. People share common culture system that organises or shape the social
and physical world. In culture there are various factors are involve such as art, law, knowledge,
customs, morals and some other habits or capabilities which are acquired by the people as a
member of society or community. Anthropology of tourism is solicitous with cultural or social
nature of the tourism or behaviour of visitors (Půtová, 2018).
Tourism is related to lots real world and theoretical problems in anthropology. The main
themes anthropologist has covered in tourism study and impacts of tourisms. These two concepts
seem to produce partial tourism analysis. The future goals research should be find incentives and
affect for both locals and tourists throughout each step of tourism. This holistic perceptive will
be essential as they find new ways in which ecotourism or alternatives forms in tourism can
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generate more environmental, economic and social advantages for local society while creating
appropriate transformative experience for travellers (Stronza, 2021).
Tourism is new phenomenon in entire world history but now days people visit new places
and travel long distances, some are going for their vacation, office purpose and many more. This
entry suggestion some major contributions anthropologists that have made to understanding the
tourism in well and communication since begin to study in 1970. common theme of this work
has that tourism often considers extension of home community tourist’s thoughts and system in
spaces and times of trip and also activity is convinced of as diversion from day to day life.
Pleasure and values that are tourists explore in trips can be described by anthropological concept
of ritual as microcosmic enactment, embodied of huge macro-cosmic conception (Richards,
2018). Staging, commodities or spectatorship are some of particular procedure that
anthropologists have the studied, by which home systems of tourists are projected outward in
other locations. I n 2000 some anthropological perform their work as focused on how the tourism
end generate more new structures of social and experience involvement not observed by
orientations of other participants set. Work emphasises how experiences and actions of various
participants are dependent to each other. In ways never well grasped by stark tourist's dichotomy
versus whole blocs based on hosts. This is also importance psychological complexity of each
people's experience (Stasch, 2021).
Anthropology and tourism describe how anthropology is window via which tourism
changes may be well examined and evaluated. Both play huge role in country's growth and
generating more revenue. Tourism industries are available in each country. Now this sector
becomes more advanced and dynamic by adopting latest trends and technology. Better tourism
sector contribute better development in country (Bburns, 2021).
Anthropology has changed and expanded radically by considering within study purview
of tourism. In spite of ubiquitous nature of exploring or travelling in tourism, anthropology and
travel became areas or subject creditable of discussion in anthropology relatively. In Europe in
1930 and in US in 1960. There are two major reasons describe dearth of attentions. The first
anthropologists are argued at hat their motivation and experience for being in extreme places
could not be compared to those visitors, they believed that in lots of instances they were being
below the belt connected with tourists they scrap in these distant locations (Singh, 2019). Second
anthropologist includes tourism a specific subject not so serious enough to explain or discuss
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intellectually or ethnographic-ally. In practically every ethnographic area site anthropologist end
at minimum occasional visitors. They were perceived to be an undesired annoyance and provide
scant or less attention. In spitefulness of this inauspicious starting the anthropological
scholarship on sector of tourism has contributed huge to studies of tourism. Anthropologists have
made essential contributions to understanding of impact on tourism on host society, effect of
travel based on an individual, power relations in tourism development, culture and heritage co
modification and other. In studies of tourism field has tended to be divided and often knowledge
base, as approach of scholar it from in their own corrective boundaries (`Carla Guerron Montero,
2021)
CONCLUSION
It is concluded the above report, anthropology and tourisms both are important for
country and people how love to travel. Tourism sector attract those people how want to visit new
places for their vacations and some people are explore new place for business purpose. Now days
there are many tourism industries are provide more opportunities in different locations.
Companies and industries change their tourism themes as per people's demand and wants.
Through this people can explore more places and find some peace in their life. Both show
cultures and social nature of different places. The basic aim of above report is how anthropology
and tourism attract different tourist across the world towards their culture. The finding are, in
world there are various kind people who are take interest in different types of culture and they
also explore them for better understanding. Cultures of countries and cities are attracting more to
people.
REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Buchowski, M., Graburn, N., Selwyn, T., Kaaristo, M., Wieczorkiewicz, A., Zowisło, M.,
Bethmann, C., Bloch, N., Bachórz, A., Sznajder, A. and Kosmala, K.,
2018. Anthropology of tourism in Central and Eastern Europe: bridging worlds.
Lexington Books.
Canosa, A., Moyle, B.D., Moyle, C.L. and Weiler, B., 2018. Anthropology and sociology in
tourism doctoral research. Tourist Studies, 18(4), pp.375-398.
Nogués-Pedregal, A.M., 2019. Anthropological contributions to tourism studies. Annals of
Tourism Research, 75, pp.227-237.
Půtová, B., 2018. Anthropology of Tourism: Researching Interactions between Hosts and
Guests. Czech Journal of Tourism, 7(1), pp.71-92.
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Richards, G., 2018. Cultural tourism: A review of recent research and trends. Journal of
Hospitality and Tourism Management, 36, pp.12-21.
Simoni, V., 2018. Approaching difference, inequality, and intimacy in tourism: A view from
Cuba. Journal of Anthropological Research, 74(4), pp.503-525.
Singh, S., 2019. Rethinking the anthropology of love and tourism. Rowman & Littlefield.
Online source
Amanda Stronza, 2021, available
through:<https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.anthro.30.1.261?
journalCode=anthro>
Rupert Stasch, 2021 aviable through <https://www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/tourism>
Peter burns, 2021 available through<https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/publications/an-
introduction-to-tourism-and-anthropology>
`Carla Guerron Montero, 2021 available through
<https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766567/obo-
9780199766567-0025.xml>
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