THE CULTURE OF TOURISM: BETWEEN THE OPPORTUNITY OF SELF TRANSGRESSION AND THE ANXIETIES OF IMPERIAL DOMINATION
Keywords:
Cultural Tourism, Imperial Domination, Sustainability, Dis/ Empowerment, OrienatlismAbstract
This paper discusses tourism and its relation to culture within the framework of
“self” empowerment and /or disempowerment. It does that by investigating the
relationship between the host and the guest as that between the colonizer and the
colonized to reveal the complex relationship that ties the two. The relationship between
the host and the guest is not only based on the economic “need” but also on some
cultural backgrounds that reveal the negotiations and confrontations between the two
sides. This paper aims at reflecting the profound complex relationship that ties the two:
the host and the guest. It also revisits the concept of tourism and problematizes its
cultural activity as an activity that boosts western hegemony over the constructed weak
“other”. This complex relationship renders tourism an arena where cultural and
coercive encounters emerge and reveal a new era of global and cultural hegemony.
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