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"Post-industrial societies are literally saturated with tourist culture, which originates from increasingly widespread and intensive channels of information, so that motivation and anticipation are now packed with meanings that would have been impossible to note 15 years ago."
(Parrinello 1993)

Information channels have increased from

the traditional forms of travelogues, guidebooks, travel tales of friends

to films, TV programs including special travel channels

to virtual reality (Internet)

with new developments still ahead (f.i. mobile phone real-time pictures instead of printed postcards)

This deluge of information structures expectations and mental images in a more and more standardized but also more complex and conceptualized way

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