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Year 2021, , 95 - 102, 01.12.2021
https://doi.org/10.48119/toleho.867086

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Authentic Experience in Tourism and Commodification

Year 2021, , 95 - 102, 01.12.2021
https://doi.org/10.48119/toleho.867086

Abstract

Defining authenticity and authentic experience is a complex process. The actual meaning of authenticity is ‘original’; however there are different interpretations based on various perspectives such as objectivism, constructivism and post-modernism. Under current changing and globalizing environment, cultural boundaries are weakening and traditions lose their meanings. Power and politics play important role in heritage preservation and authorization of the authentic experience. The search for authentic experience has become a main drive for people to travel recently. The increase in the demand for authentic products and experience led to the commodification o cultural elements. On the other hand, this type of tourism creates job for local people and guided them to explore their culture deeper. Authentic experience reinforces stereotypes and breaks them at the same time. Different variables such as globalization, capitalism, standardization should be considered in authenticity research. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of authenticity in touristic experience be reviewing relevant literature.

References

  • Ashworth, G.J. (2008). Paradigms and paradoxes in planning the past. In M. Smith & L. Onderwater (Eds.), Selling or Telling? Paradoxes in tourism, culture and heritage (pp. 23-34). Arnhem: ATLAS.
  • Ballengee-Morris, C. (2002). Cultures for sale: Perspectives on colonialism and self-determination and the relationship to authenticity and tourism. Studies in Art Education, 43(3), 232-245.
  • Baudrillard, J. (1994). Simulacra and simulation, University of Michigan Pr.
  • Bruner, C. (2005). Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel. (pp. 127-168). Chicago: University of Chicago Press
  • Caton K. & Santos C. A. (2009). Images of the other: Selling study abroad in a postcolonial world. Journal of Travel Research, 48(2), 191-204.
  • Chhabra, D., Healy, R., & Sills, E. (2003). Staged authenticity and heritage tourism. Annals of Tourism Research, 30(3), 702-719.
  • Echtner, C. M., & Prasad, P. (2003). The context of third world tourism marketing. Annals of Tourism Research, 30(3), 660-682.
  • Eco, U. (1990). Travels in hyperreality, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
  • Ger, G., & Holt, D. B. (2000). Consuming ritual: Reframing the Turkish henna-night ceremony. Advances in Consumer Research, 27, 209-214.
  • Grünewald, R. A. (2002). Tourism and cultural revival. Annals of Tourism Research, 29(4), 1004-1021.
  • Halewood, C., & Hannam, K. (2001). Viking heritage tourism: Authenticity and commodification. Annals of Tourism Research, 28(3), 565-580.
  • Hewison, R. (1989). Heritage: An Interpretation. In David L. Uzzel (ed.) Heritage Interpretation Volume 1: The Natural and Built Environment (pp. 15-23). London: Belhaven.
  • Hughes, G. (1995). Authenticity in tourism. Annals of Tourism Research, 22(4), 781-803.
  • Lane, R., & Waitt, G. (2001). Authenticity in tourism and native title: Place, time and spatial politics in the east kimberley. Social & Cultural Geography, 2(4), 381-405.
  • Li, Y. (2003). Heritage tourism: The contradictions between conservation and change. Tourism and Hospitality Research, 4(3), 247-261.
  • Lowenthal, D. (1998). The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Preface to 1998 Edition, and Introduction)
  • MacCannell, D. (1973). Staged authenticity: Arrangements of social space in tourist settings. American Journal of Sociology, 79(3), 589-603.
  • Merriam-Webster Dictionary retrieved from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/authentic
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Primary Language English
Subjects Tourism (Other)
Journal Section Peer-reviewed Articles
Authors

Güliz Coşkun 0000-0002-5200-6370

Publication Date December 1, 2021
Submission Date January 23, 2021
Acceptance Date May 4, 2021
Published in Issue Year 2021

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APA Coşkun, G. (2021). Authentic Experience in Tourism and Commodification. Journal of Tourism Leisure and Hospitality, 3(2), 95-102. https://doi.org/10.48119/toleho.867086

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