By Gavin Jack
''This booklet asks the query: Why is it that tourism concerns? It solutions this query through taking a look at the way it is we do tourism and discover ways to be travelers once we are on vacation. Tourism, in response to Gavin Jack and Alison Phipps, is a dynamic method of being which could facilitate or prevent intercultural trade. The ways that we do tourism and the locations within which we're travelers bring up useful, fabric and emotional questions on vacationer existence. those questions are on the center of this book.'' to handle those concerns the authors learn the ways that intercultural trade is fostered. They draw on either empirical paintings and a variety of theoretical frameworks, arguing that tourism issues accurately a result of classes it could train us approximately residing lifestyle with others.
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For us, the central challenge for the construction of a ‘reflexive methodology’ is being able to capture and subsequently render visible the primarily reflexive practices which serve to construct our knowledge of tourism. As such, the questions that concern us are how and under what conditions was our methodology constructed and how did our reflexive practices take form ? We attempted to render visible, at least to some extent, our reflexive practices, the joint travel, by taping our conversation and exchanges.
The form of this book seeks to reflect something of the form of our ethnography. ‘Every element of form has an active material base’ says Raymond Williams (1977). What comes out of the material and intellectual travel bag and is used depends on the unexpected and unknowable nature of ethnographic encounter, of exchange and human interaction, on surprise. Our work needed to be made to stand still. We needed to ‘record’ and ‘make imprints’ of our experiences, albeit provisionally, such that we might comprehend their meaning and assess their significance.
Whilst we are reluctant to condemn the culture concept too quickly to the attic (as Eagleton suggests we do), we are keen to offer a broadened conceptual frame for the study of tourist exchange within which material objects play an important role. We also see the phenomena of touristic 34 Living the Tourist Life material life, not as simple material objects, but as bound into sensory, participatory relations of exchange, triggering a range of thoughts, feelings, hues and shades of emotions and memories in tourists’ everyday lives.