Translating the tourist gaze: from heritage and ‘culture’ to actual encounter

This paper covers two main areas. The fi rst area is an analysis of the various facets of heritage, cultural tourism and tourist encounter with other cultures in terms of culture-bound tourist gaze, a simplifi ed, generalised and necessarily distorted model of ‘the Other’. The model of perception is...

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Main Author: David Katan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Investigación Social y Turismo 2012-05-01
Series:PASOS Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural
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Online Access:http://www.pasosonline.org/Publicados/10412special/PS0412_09.pdf