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Authenticity and commoditization in tourism.
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In this article, three basic assumptions, common in the literature on tourism, regarding "commoditization", "staged authenticity" and the inability of tourists to have authentic experiences are re-examined.About:
This article is published in Annals of Tourism Research.The article was published on 1988-01-01. It has received 2155 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Commoditization & Cultural tourism.read more
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Rethinking authenticity in tourism experience
TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual clarification of the meanings of authenticity in tourist experiences is presented, and three approaches are discussed, objectivism, constructivism, and postmodernism, and the limits of object-related authenticity are also exposed.
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Towards a structural model of the tourist experience: an illustration from food experiences in tourism.
Shuai Quan,Ning Wang +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors tried to build a conceptual model, in which both dimension of the tourist experience are integrated as a structured and interrelated whole, and the position and role of each experiential component such as eating, sleeping, transportation and so on in tourism can be more clearly understood in terms of this model.
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Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide for Management, Business and Market Researchers
TL;DR: A critical review of the Grounded Theory Methodology can be found in this paper, where the authors present an illustrative illustration of the grounded theory method for the identification and explanation of concepts and categories.
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Consumer Perceptions of Iconicity and Indexicality and Their Influence on Assessments of Authentic Market Offerings
Kent Grayson,Radan Martinec +1 more
TL;DR: The authors used Peirce's semiotic framework to distinguish between two kinds of authenticity, indexical and iconic, based on data collected at two tourist attractions, and showed that these cues can have a different influence on the benefits of consuming authenticity.
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Virtual reality: applications and implications for tourism.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present six areas of tourism in which VR may prove particularly valuable: planning and management, marketing, entertainment, education, accessibility, and heritage preservation, and numerous suggestions for future research are presented.
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The Social Construction of Reality
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The Social Construction of Reality
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The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class
TL;DR: LuLu Lippard as mentioned in this paper reviewed the 1989 edition of The Tourist in 2013 Introduction to the 1989 Edition Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Modernity and the Production of Touristic Experiences 2. Sightseeing and Social Structure 3. The Paris Case: Origins of Alienated Leisure 4. The Other Attractions 5. Staged Authenticity 6. A Semiotic of Attraction 7. The Ethnomethodology of Sightseers 8. Structure, Genuine and Spurious 9.
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The social life of things: Introduction: commodities and the politics of value
TL;DR: The authors argue that what creates the link between exchange and value is politics, and propose a new perspective on the circulation of commodities in social life, which justifies the conceit that commodities, like persons, have social lives.