Present-Day Mass Tourism
Its Imaginaries and Nightmare Scenarios
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2816753 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rob Kroes (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Kindergeneeskunde, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 385-391 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0147-2011 • E-ISSN: 1936-4725 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s12115-020-00499-y |
| PMID | 32836555 |
| OpenAlex | W3042597637 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Present-day mass tourism uncannily resembles an auto-immune disease. Yet, self-destructive as it may be, it is also self-regenerating, changing its appearance and purpose. They are two modes that stand in contrast to each other. We can see them as opposites that delimit a conceptual dimension ordering varieties of present-day mass tourism. The first pole calls forth tourism as a force leaving ruin and destruction in its wake or at best a sense of nostalgia for what has been lost, the other sees tourism as a force endlessly resuscitating and re-inventing itself. This paper article highlights both sides of the story. These times of the Covid-19 pandemic, with large swathes of public life emptied by social lock-down, remind us of a second, cross-cutting conceptual dimension, ranging from public space brimming with human life to its post-apocalyptic opposite eerily empty and silent. The final part of my argument will touch on imagined evocations of precisely such dystopian landscapes
Advertising · Business · Day to day · Economics · Mass media · Nightmare · Operations management · Political science · Present day · Sociology · Tourism · Law · Psychology · Religious Tourism and Spaces
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |