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Why am I travelling? Learning
to be a tourist
We have looked at theories of typologies and segmentation of tourists
and found them lacking in helping to understand
the relations between the individual choices and
the sociological and other external influences.
To be a tourist is a complex learning process of what to expect and how
to behave.
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Like learning to work regular hours at a certain
place following specific rules during
industrialization needed several generations,
before it felt "normal" and
before the necessary infrastructure
developed (Maggi soups f.i.),
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J.
Maggi 1886
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learning to be a tourist as well is a process of
several generations and needs the development
of specific infrastructure (Hydroton
Clay pebbles f.i.)
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In Europe only people born in the 1970s and later
are "second-generation" tourists, having
a socialization where travelling has been a part
of living from the beginning (with the exception
of some rich families).
 
Contact: wolfgang.arlt@fh-stralsund.de
Office: 1/132, Tel. (03831) 45 6961
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