Tourist Gaze: Universal Concept
Recent sociological theories have suggested that as posttourism emerges, the “tourist gaze,” the systematic ways in which tourists are seeing, experiencing, and consuming signs, symbols, and places when they are traveling, has increasingly been universalized. This article, based on in-depth interviews with tourists from South Korea traveling to Queensland in Australia and content analysis of tourist brochures and guidebooks produced for the tourists, proposes that their gaze is far from being homogenized. The South Korean tourists' preferences for the “ultra modern,” rather than nostalgia and romanticism in nature, are illustrative of the Eurocentrism in existing tourism theories.
Keywords: Euroce; Key words: Tourist gaze; Universal concept
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: School of Tourism and Hotel Management, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
Publication date: 01 February 2001
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