Not just sightseeing but resonating

Reframing the trouble with the good life in post-tourism

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ID12697452
AuthorsJosé Luis González (0000-0002-0973-4049, Universitat Jaume I, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume25
Issue3
Pages253-271
Publication date2025-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTourist Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1468-7976 • E-ISSN: 1741-3206
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/14687976251371275
OpenAlexW4414116688
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited31

Ethical reflections on the relationship between tourism and the good life remain underexplored, particularly in the context of post-tourism’s fragmented and accelerated practices. While tourism’s negative impacts often overshadow its potential contributions to the good life, the absence of a clear telos or internal good —in the Aristotelian-MacIntyrean sense— in tourism practice complicates this evaluation. How, then, can tourism practice’s contribution to the good life be assessed? This paper interrogates this issue by comparing two frameworks. Unlike Dean MacCannell’s approach, which argues that the practice of sightseeing embodies the good common to all tourism and its potential social benefits lie in the tourist’s virtuous capacities, this work proposes that Hartmut Rosa’s concept of resonance may offer an alternative foundation for a critique of the good life in tourism. This approach shifts the ethical focus from the tourist to the social and cultural dynamics of acceleration that shape contemporary tourism

Cognitive reframing · Context (archaeology · Everyday life · Form of the Good · Social life · The good life · Tourism · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development

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