Essay On Authenticity And Tourism

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Tourism is a popular leisure activity in today’s society, many people love to travel with their family and friends because it is a good way to relax and to explore the world. It is fortune to live in the present because people have internet or other kinds of media such as guide book, it is more easy to know the unique culture and feature in different countries. Through these representations that media presents, people form an impression or opinion about a specific group of people or country. In this essay, I will look at how authenticity, representation and tourism affect each other. First, historical event leads to a misleading or incorrect representation to a country, which means tourists prejudge other group of people through historical issue and assume they act and think the same way as before. …show more content…

Tourists may prejudice chao khao by viewing the historical representation that they have but it is not authentic because this group of people changes and they do not act the same way as before. The history of chao khao misleads tourists to form a negative perspective toward them. It is difficult to change an opinion about a place since people has formed that in mind, what they can do is to find the truth out, and the best way to do that is through touring. However, the things that you see may not be real, the things that are real however, you may not see. Since tourism has become an important source of income for many countries, places starts to pay attention to their culture and feature.They emphasize the custom and physical feature that they have in order to attract and cater tourists’ attention. They may propagate part of their culture that was not mainly in their culture before or that does not play in contemporary anymore. For example, Hawaiian advertisements nowadays

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