by Dean MacCannell · University of California Press · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9780520257832
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«The Ethics of Sightseeing» is Dean MacCannell's essay on tourism and ethics, published by University of California Press in paperback (271 pages).
Dean MacCannell analyses whether travel improves a person and how to do it ethically, combining observation and scholarship. He examines rural landscapes, urban scenes, sites of tragedies, Disney parks and beaches. The concept of «staged authenticity» reveals how tourism becomes an ethical test that can enrich the traveller.
The work, published in 2011, is in English and includes a bibliography (pages 231-253) and an index.
For readers interested in philosophy, sociology and cultural studies, as well as reflection on tourism.
