Lecture 10 Flashcards
What are the 3 main features of the implicit compact of the host and their guest?
Protection
Reciprocity
Duties for both sides
What is protection in the host and guest interaction?
The first one was “protection” extended by the host to the guest on the grounds of their common humanity.
The mere fact of showing up at somebody’s manor implied the provision of safety for the time the guest chose to stay or the host allowed them to remain.
What is reciprocity of the host and guest interaction?
The second element demanded “reciprocity”.
The guest shall return his host’s present protection whenever their roles are reversed, and in their future travels the host, their family members, or associates find themselves in the same predicament as the guest at present.
What are the duties of both sides in the host and guess interaction?
he host had to tend not only to his guest’s protection, but to his material well being as well.
On the other hand, the guest became a temporary member of the family.
for tourism to be successful what has to be present?
“Fundamental to the successful development of tourism is the balanced or harmonious relationship between tourists, the people and places they encounter, and the organisations and businesses that provide tourism services”
• To be successful there has to be balance, but there is not for the most part
What is tourism the largest in?
As the ‘largest peaceful movement of people’ in history both within and across national boundaries, tourism represents one of the world’s largest discretionary transfers of wealth…
-became a peaceful transfer of wealth, important to places that arent privileged
What does tourism provide?
thereby providing a source of income, foreign exchange, government revenues and employment, business and infrastructural development and, hence, wider economic growth and development in destination areas.
What is the foundation of the challenges of the host?
The development of tourism incurs varying degrees of impact on destination environments and, in particular, on the local people who act as ‘hosts’ to tourists.
Low level impact then can live with it, but if they are larger, cons start to outwright the benefit
Indeed, destination communities face something of a ‘development dilemma’; they are, in a sense, required to engage in a trade-off between the benefits they perceive to receive from tourism and the negative social and environmental consequences of its development
What sis the happy host?
is considered essential – as the success and sustainability of the sector depends upon the goodwill of local residents.
If local residents arent happy, they will put out a not friendly environment, spreads negative word that the place isnt friendly to tourism
What happens if locals see that cost of tourism outweighs benefits?
then they will withdraw their support for tourism, thereby threatening the future success and development of the sector.
Is there evidence to support the withdrawal of community support for tourism ?
In practice, evidence of such a withdrawal of support for tourism by host communities is limited.
In other words, the assertion by many commentators that negative perceptions of tourism on the part of destination communities may be translated into similarly negative behaviour towards tourists or the tourism sector is…
…not widely supported in the literature.
• Evidence limited, and not widely supported in literature
Are attitudes towards tourists discussed?
Most studies are concerned with residents’ attitudes towards what may referred to as tourism development, and the benefits/disbenefits that arise from it.
Conversely, attitudes towards tourists, which may be rather different from those related to tourism development, are rarely addressed.
• Looking at tourism development, but attitudes toward tourist are rarely adressed in literature
What are the 4 characteristics seen as common to most touring encounters?
• The recognition by both participants of the transitory & mainly nonrepetitive character of their relationship;
○ Eassy to percieve relationship because its short but tourists talk between eachtother and can spread the word
• Touring tends to highlight for both parties the importance of an orientation to immediate gratification;
○ They cant sowly get to know you, they immediately want a good meal and good time
• Touring tends to be asymmetrical or unbalanced in character;
○ Tourist or host will have power over other, normally it’s the guest who holds the power
• There is a pervasive sense of new experience, & a resulting freshness & excitement.
○ Throughout interaction there is excitement between new relationship
Why is it business as usual for the host when interacting with tourists?
but ‘business as usual’
○ As tourist, you think its special, but for host its sbuisness as usual and everyone is excited, harder for them to maintain
What are the 3 main types of touring encounters from the standpoint of their cultural composition ?
• Those where the cultural backgrounds of hosts & visitors are the same or closely similar;
○ Canadians and USA similar
• Those where such backgrounds are different but the differences are supplementary or integrative in nature;
○ Canadian traveling in England
• Those where they are different & inconsistent.
○ Host and tourist are both very different, and you feel completely out of sort, what the rules are, don’t know how to ask for things. Can lead to a bad experience,
