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This 5 page paper takes a look at tourism and how politics and other factors affect what tourists see. Several examples are provided and an anthropological view is taken. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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see a holy land, but also by strategies of tour guides, who fashion tourists experiences of sites and of the land holistically. Some have thought that this shows
the complex method through which sites are endowed with meanings that are not given to them by history, but rather constructed and reinvented by the tourist industry. They are dispersed
through the ideology of various cultural views. Certainly, there is a politicized nature of sites, something that Bowman and others recognizes. Part of the dilemma is that there is sometimes
a lack of authenticity in the tourist experience. Authenticity as a concept has been noted in many works on tourism and the quest for authenticity can have either a positive
or negative effect (Jennings & Stehlik, 2002). On one hand, cultural, ethnic, and heritage tourism and authenticity provides a means to sustain authentic cultural practices but on the other hand,
there is literature which links tourism to the erosion of the authentic experiences (2002). Some texts on tourism have gone on to examine authenticity in respect to the politics of
representation, and identity (2002). Authenticity is also discussed in respect to postmodern and concepts such as the tourist gaze (2002). Quite obviously, tourism is more than it appears
on the surface. Things are of course different in various parts of the world. An example is that politically aware Torajans see anthropology and tourisms potential as something that
can validate and amplify different versions of their culture (Adams, 1995). The Torajan elites perception of tourism and anthropology seems to highlight Hobsbawm and others observations in respect to the
continuous reinvention of tradition (1995). This is quite a statement and suggests that in fact tourists are not provided with authentic fare. Rather, they are often given a politicized view,
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