Tourism
Trends and Patterns of Temporal Tourism Growth in Ladakh Region, India
By: MOHD SADIQ, SURENDRA MEHER – The Ladakh region is known worldwide for tourism activities due to its special mountainous landscape. Summer is the peak season for tourism, while winter is the lowest season in terms of tourist arrivals in the region. This research based study deals with the growth trends of tourism in Ladakh…
Tourism in Arunachal Pradesh: Evolution of Tourism Area and its Effects on the Guest-Host Interactions
By: HIBU DINDIE – Arunachal Pradesh is a land-locked frontier state of India. It lacks a robust industry and is deficient in infrastructure and other amenities. One of the ways mooted by the state government and entrepreneurs to overcome this challenge was to give an impetus to the tourism sector in the state. It is…
Turismo etnico nel Mursiland: incontri ravvicinati di un certo tipo
autenticità, autentico, authentic, authenticity Antropologia del turismo, Ethiopia, ethnic tourism, Ethnicity, Etiopia, etnicità, guests and hosts, lip-plate, Mursi, Omo Valley, piattello labiale, souvenir, Tourism, Tourism anthropology, tradition, tradizione, travel, turismo, turismo etnico, viaggiBy: SANDRA BUSATTA, MARIANNA MAZZETTO – This article aims to analyze first the relationship between tourists and natives in a liminal area such as the villages built on the road that takes tourists to Mursiland, and the dialogical construction that derives from it, which is in all respects a representation, and secondly in which way…
Tourism as Pilgrimage?
By: SANDRA BUSATTA – Anthropologists have been debating the relationship between the tourist and the pilgrim for a number of decades, using in a somewhat loose way terms such as vacation, travel and tour. The etymologies of the words used for travel, journey, voyage and tourism, as well as vacation, holiday, feast and fair, and…
How much mobile we are?
By: MAXIMILIANO E. KORSTANJE, FRANCISCO MUÑOZ DE ESCALONA – The social sciences have adopted the paradigm of mobility as unquestionable. This becomes in an ideological instrument to justify many practices and covering others. Nonetheless, the capitalist ethos is far away of promoting mobility, strengthens its forms of production on sedentary logic. Travels are only circular…
The Role of Art in Two Neighborhoods and Responses to Urban Decay and Gentrification
By: GEOFFREY SKOLL, MAXIMILIANO E. KORSTANJE – One of the most troubling aspects of cultural studies, is the lack of comparative cases to expand the horizons of micro-sociology. Based on this, the present paper explores the effects of gentrification in two neighborhoods, Riverwest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA and Abasto in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Each neighborhood…
Provisions and Perceptions of the Hosts in Business at Digha. A Study of Beach Tourism in India
By: KARTICK CHAKRABORTY, DIPANKAR CHATTERJEE, ARNAB DAS – The impact of tourism in a society is a complex and varied subject. It is generally agreed that tourism results in both positive and negative impacts for hosts of tourism destinations. There is a need to study hosts perceptions of tourism because local stakeholders are the ones…
Non-places and tourism: towards an understanding of travel
By: MAXIMILIANO E. KORSTANJE – The present paper put the non-places theory under scrutiny considering that there is no place in the world that can be termed non-place. This not only defies the principles of anthropology but also borders the boundaries of ethnocentrism. Quite apart from the afore-mentioned limitations we have examined in this paper,…
Re-thinking the contributions of Dean Maccannell. A new theory of leisure class placed under debate
By: MAXIMILIANO E. KORSTANJE – Today, Dean Maccannell has become in one of most important scholars in tourism fields. Not only his contributions have been quoted in whole literature and tourism-related journals, but also had taken as an obligated referenced for all who makes tourism their object of study. Under such a context, Maccannell have…