The new technologies, including media, have a role in redefining culture, that is, in delimiting the human. The electronic experience expands our ability to fictionalize, tell stories, and make narratives using resources from various media, including different technical formats and languages: photographs, picture postcards, selfies, videos, films, and other media.
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Tourism as Experience and Desire for Territory and Traveling
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-3369-0.ch002
Abstract
The approach the author takes on tourism is not related to economic analysis, nor even a political analysis stricto sensu. He configures tourism as a cultural activity. The perspective developed on tourism is here phenomenological and socio-anthropological. Hence, the author does not dwell on business (nec/otium – not/leisure; activity, work, commerce) but mostly on leisure (otium – time free from activity). First, he points out that tourism reflects our current obsession with one territory and traveling in one territory. The second element developed in this chapter is the experience of traveling, which is always a possibility of an encounter – an encounter with the other and an encounter with nature.