Conflictive Touring: The Roots of Terrorism

Conflictive Touring: The Roots of Terrorism

Maximiliano E. Korstanje
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/IJCWT.2015040104
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Abstract

Problems to understand social phenomenon associates to our misconceptions, stereotypes and prejudices imposed during our early socialization. This happens not only with tourism which is valorized as a right of all citizens in modern societies, but also with terrorism, judged as the main threat of West. However, what would happen if both would be different sides of the same coin? This essay review explores the roots of tourism and terrorism during the process of unionization in US. What on one hand resulted in a hyper-mobile process that shore up tourism, on another was a desesperate attempt to struggle against terrorism. In this vein, it is safe to say that tourism is terrorism by other means.
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