Tourism and citizenship
Tourism and citizenship
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旅游和公民身份
DOI:
10.1080/10286639809358077
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发表时间:
1998
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C. Rojek
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C. Rojek
We do not think of tourism as a citizenship right until our freedom to travel is threatened. Yet in 1958, the United States supreme court ruled that'freedom of movement is basic to our scheme of values... and may be as close to the heart of the individual as the choice of what he eats, or wears of reads'(Wolf 1989: 14). Despite this, it is rare to find the question of citizenship raised in the rapidly growing field of Tourist Studies. As Craik (1991) argues, questions of rights and obligations in tourist studies have usually focused narrowly on economic issues. At the level of public policy, strategic questions have concentrated upon the role of tourism in stimulating economic growth, maximizing foreign exchange earnings and creating jobs. There is also the dominant tendency of formulating questions of strategy and policy at the level of the nation-state. Comparatively little research has been conducted into tourist relations between states and the ecological and political effects of tourism on global conditions. Several changes in the structure of tourism are combining to transform this state of affairs. Three points must be made. Firstly, the prominence of tourism in national and international life has increased dramatically in the last thirty years. Since the early 1960s the number of tourists at large in the world has risen by 10% every year. By 2000, many commentators predict that tourism will be the world's biggest industry (Kahn 1980: 16). Tourism represents the largest movement of a mass population outside wartime (Greenwood 1972: 81). The sheer volume of people in transit around the world has increased the prominence of tourism in national culture.