The tourist: a new theory of leisure class

chapter 6 "The semiotic of attraction"
Dean ManCannell

TOURISM: critical concepts in the social sciences

chapter: "McDisneyization and Post-tourism" (George Ritzer adn Allan Liska)
in the book Tourism: critical concepts in the social sciences (Stephen Williams)

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do I give credits to google books? :P

maybe

urban snapshots

whale hunting

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a nice (and many different) way of depicting an event: the whale hunt

MacCannell

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The Tourist - A new theorie of the leisure class

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spectacular NYC, 1956

hotels

to come back to a hotel room reminds how tourist you are in a city. As I've been traveling lately for my friends' houses I had forgoten how distant from a city a hotel room can be. not only geographically, of course. To come back to somebody's place, on the other hand, just keeps the experience going. There is food from the supermarket, there is the laundry to do, there is the computer with the email from work, a kitchen, the neighbors, a key. A hotel room is apart from all the real life, it is not part of the city. it could, even, be anywhere - as many are, actually... you've seen once, you've seen them all. there is a bed, a tv, a shower and generic paints on the wall, if much. a white canvas of interest and place. maybe is it also a non-place?