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Part 2
Check your answers
What counts as authenticity?
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Travelling
to places other people don’t go to
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Travelling
to dangerous places
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Some
wouldn’t go to touristy places.
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Others
say you should go to cultural sites, but you behave differently from the
ordinary tourist.
How would a
traveller behave?
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Be
respectful towards the local culture
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(Make
an attempt to) speak the local language
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Travel
as a single person rather than in a group
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Spend
as little money as possible
Who are
they usually? (income, class background)
·
The
average traveller is better off than the average tourists.
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They
travel for a longer time.
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They
are of middle class background.
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As
they try not to spend too much money, they tend not to give much money to the local
community
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On
the other hand, they try to use services local people have set up.
They try to
go off the beaten tracks. Do they actually find out more about the local cultures
than ordinary tourists?
They
tend to describe the places they visit in pre-modern, exotic terms.
They
have a pre-notion of what passes as authentic.
On what is
the research based?
·
On
blogs and forums
The Moderator,
Larry Taylor, doesn’t think of himself as a tourist. Is this unusual for travellers/tourists?
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Not,
this feeling unites all tourists
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They
don’t like to see themselves as tourists
Are there
any new trends in the tourism industry concerning travellers?
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One
can find holidays designed for traveller.
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It’s
a big market.
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