By John Urry, Jonas Larsen
John Urry and Jonas Larsen tackle the vacationer gaze, that's the demeanour within which the vacationer orders and regulates their courting with the vacationer atmosphere, demarcating the unexpected and opting for the extreme.
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There is increasingly what Bauman describes as the shift from a solid, fixed modernity to a more fluid and speeded-up ‘liquid modernity’ (2000). And part of this sense of compression of space has stemmed from the rapid flows of travellers and tourists physically moving from place to place, and especially from hub airport to hub airport. Elsewhere we distinguish between virtual travel through the internet, imaginative travel through phone, radio and TV, and corporeal travel along the infrastructures of the global travel industry (Urry, 2007; also see Cresswell, 2006).
Indd 28 09/06/2011 11:01:08 AM Theories tourist’s oyster … to be lived pleasurably’ (Bauman, 1993: 241). Both vagabonds and tourists move through other people’s spaces, they both separate physical closeness from moral proximity, and both set standards for happiness and the good life. According to Bauman, the good life has come to be thought of as akin to a ‘continuous holiday’ (1993: 243). There is thus no separate tourist gaze since, according to Bauman, this is simply how life is lived at least for the prosperous one-third within the new global order.
Why did the tourist gaze develop among this industrial working class in the north of England? What revolution in experience, thinking and perception led to such novel and momentous modes of social practice? The growth of such tourism represents a kind of ‘democratisation’ of travel. We have seen that travel had been enormously socially selective. It had been available for a relatively limited elite and was a marker of social status. But in the second half of the nineteenth century there was an extensive development in Europe of mass travel by train.