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Authenticity in post-industrial
societies
So why is Authenticity one of the biggest
motivators or even the biggest motivator for Tourism?
Boorstin in the 1960s argued that tourists
demand "the world to be
made a stage for pseudo-events".
MacCannell in the 1970s and 80s argued:
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"Sightseeing
is a kind of collective striving for
a transcendence of the modern totality,
a way of attempting to overcome the
discontinuity of modernity."
(MacCannell 1989)
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Today, people living in post-industrial
societies are seen to have given up the belief in
any kind of authentic experience and therefore,
acting as "post-tourists", Sharpley and
many other authors describe them like this:
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"For
the post-tourist, of course, the debate
becomes irrelevant; all tourism is a
game, all tourist experiences are part
of that game and, in recognising this
and the tourist's role in the game,
the concept of authenticity is not considered."
(Sharpley 1999)
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