"The term "tourist" is increasingly used as a derisive label for someone who seems content with his obviously inauthentic experiences.
The variety of understanding held out before tourists as an ideal is an authentic and demystified experience of an aspect of some society or other person."


MacCannell,Dean. 1976. Staged Authenticity. In The Tourist: a New Theory of the Leisure Class. New Youk: Schocken Books, p94.

back to reflection 1