Commodifying Tourism

Commodifying Tourism

Ekaterina Dogodkina Elizaveta Medvedeva Shahriyar Humbatov

Assignment paper in International Tourism Management Master Program for the course International Tourism Management held by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt

|25746, Heide |1st semester ITM |
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|Germany |28 January 2013 |
Contents

I. Abbreviations and Acronyms 2
II. Tables and Figures 4

1. Introduction 5
2. Shopping and Tourism 12
3. Commodification of cultures 18
4. Commodification of Mass Tourism 25
5. Hyper-real commodified spaces 29 5.1. Simulation and hyper-reality phenomenon 29 5.2. American’s hyper-real places 32 5.3. Hyper-real Orient 37
6. Conclusions 41

III. References 42
IV. Eidesstattliche Erklärung 48

I. Abbreviations and Acronyms

MENA Middle East and North Africa
NGO Non-governmental organization
SME Small-Medium enterprises
UNWTO United Nations World Tourism Organization
WHO World Health Organization

II. Tables and Figures

Figure 1. RSA - critical evaluation…………………………………………………23

1. Introduction

There is a very close connection between the tourism industry and a process of commodification which, by-turn relates to the cultural issues rather tightly. Claire Bougot (2011) states that ‘in most cases, culture is staged to satisfy tourists in order to create an income for host populations; it is therefore commodified’. Cohen (1988 cited in Bougot, 2011)

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