- Uluslararası Güncel Turizm Araştırmaları Dergisi
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- A Criticism Of Contemporary Mass Tourism By Historical Analogic Approach
A Criticism Of Contemporary Mass Tourism By Historical Analogic Approach
Authors : Onur Akbulut
Pages : 52-59
Doi:10.30625/ijctr.470022
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Publication Date : 2018-12-24
Article Type : Research
Abstract :This article underlines two historical analogic approaches as a criticism of the contemporary mass tourism. It is argued that western hegemony developed countries may originate contemporary mass tourism. According to historian and classicist Kagan (2007) two complementary main features of western civilization are Hellenism and Christianity. This article takes these complementary features into consideration with Leiper’s (1981) Tourism System’s two main components demand and supply. These four concepts were discussed using historical analogies. Demand vs (versus) Christianity (heaven portrayal) were chosen as the first analogy. Supply vs Hellenism (polis and subjects [helots] specific to Sparta city state) was proposed as the second analogy. These two analogies may help to gain a better understanding of mass tourism by means of a critic approach with regard to its proposed historical roots.Keywords : Mass tourism, Historical analogy, Tourism system, Christianity, Hellenism