„Interkultouralität?“ oder: Kritische Überlegungen zu interkulturellen Aspekten des Tourismus

Garaeva Gulnaz

Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft, 2012, vol. 4, issue 2, 209-220

Abstract: This paper critically scrutinizes the relevance of tourism for intercultural learning. It shows that travelling abroad does not automatically enable tourists to engage in a deeper intercultural understanding of their tourist destinations. In most cases, travelling abroad seems to merely reinforce stereotypes and clichés centered around a tourist destination’s people, places, and culture. These clichés get intensified by the many ways in which foreign culture is being staged in order to cater to tourists’ pre-conceived notions of what a culture is about. Moreover, intercultural communication and interaction get hampered by the fact that tourists have a status that is substantially different from that of members of the local communities they visit, and that tourists typically are exposed to a destination’s culture only for a brief period of time.

Keywords: interculturality; stereotypes; tourist interactions; authenticity; cultural staging; Interkulturalität; Stereotype; touristische Interaktionen; Authentizität; Inszenierung; interculturality; stereotypes; tourist interactions; authenticity; cultural staging (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1515/tw-2012-0207

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