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Post-modern
travels - Invention
Physical invention:
Disneyland,
Theme parks,
artificial
Ski- and Diving Halls,
Film-induced travels,
Heidiland
Technical invention:
"Death of Distance",
Virtual travel,
Avatar travel (Example:
Teddy Tours) http://www.teddy-tour-berlin.de/
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Mental invention:
End of division of working time/space and
leisure time/space,
end of division normal surroundings / strange surroundings,
touristification of everyday life,
Dark Tourism,
Experimental Travel
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/experimentaltravel
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Tourism <->
reality perception
Lahaina Town (from
a Hawaii promotional website)
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"Lahaina on Maui
(Hawaii).
Consider the corner of the Old Fort that protected the royal capital in the
1820's. Sailors got angry at the missionaries for trying to cleaning things
up.They lobbed a
cannon shot into town. So the fort got built. When sailing died out, it was torn
down. This corner was rebuilt in 1964."
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As
a matter of fact, there never existed a Old Fort, as there also existed
no royal capital in the 1820s (the only shortly before under King Kamehameha
united Hawaiian islands did not have a concept of "capital" or any
stone buildings).
The stones at the central square of Lahaina -
despite the sign from
the "Lahaina Historical Society" - are left-over props from a
movie production of the 1960s.
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Post-modern travels:
Most people living on the planet are hosts and tourists at different
times. Tourism becomes universal
Tourism as main source of income for many regions. Traditions designed
after demand. At the same time change from destination to
activity as object of travel
Short-time or long-time travels (days or years)
Invention of artificial places
End of split between travelling/holidays and living/working
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New forms and quantitative development in next
classes in more detail,
today collecting experiences with forms of tourism from
the participants
Topics
for Presentations
Group work:
Five groups to analyse and present the current situation
and trends of tourism in each of the five continents
(Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania): domestic,
inbound, outbound (selected countries), tourism forms,
future trends, challenges for management
Formation of groups, first discussion of way of organizing the
work
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