The Truth About Travel & Tourism

As can now be considered common knowledge, the sweeping international phenomenon labelled 'globalization' has called for a review of everything we once simply knew as tourism. Some travel to 'get away', others to see new things and experience foreign cultures, while others appreciate it for the sheer spontaneity it can bring. While globalization is often accredited with the increased ease with which we can now travel (or tour, for that matter), it has also served …

…and historical items and structures of their deserved grandeur. They say great power comes with great responsibility, and as the largest industry in the world, its making its potential of making a mess of things becomes just as large. Works Cited O'Rourke, Dennis. Cannibal Tours (1986) Jem Cohen, Chain (2004) Maccannell, Dean. "Introduction", "modernity and the Production of the Touristic Experience". In the Tourist. New York: Schocken Bools, 1989. Culler, Jonathan. "Semiotics oc Tourism". American Journal of Semiotics (1981)