AUTOMOBILE
According to a tour in Cleveland, the word 'automobile' was
popularized by the Cleveland Plains Dealer when the reporter
opted to use the French word 'automobile' instead of using the
term 'horseless carriage.'
BACKPACKERS
Are they easily categorized?
BUSMAN'S HOLIDAY
A vacation during which one engages in activity that is similar
to one's usual work.
BENCHMARK
Benchmark
- Dictionary.com
COMFORT ZONE
Travel invariably pushes the boundaries of what we are familiar
and thereby comfortable. Uncertainly plays a great role in establishing
the limit of what is and is not comfortable. Through preparation
and reflection we are able to become more at east when experiencing
the unfamiliar.
LUXURY TOURISM
Google
'luxury tour'
Newsgoogle
'luxury tour'
What is a luxury tour?
Forbes
Traveler
Luxury
Travel - The Australian
ROOTS TOURISM
Some travelers are visiting the places where their ancestors
lived. Vacations are used to explore one's family heritage and
culture.
DESIRE PATHS
Used in landscape architecture, desire paths describe the path
worn into the ground that deviate from the planned walkways
by people finding the shortest distance between two points.
A desire path could be a short cut through waste ground, across
the corner of a civic garden or down an embankment. They were
expressions of free will, 'paths with a passion', an alternative
to the strictures of railings, fences and walls that turned
individuals into powerless apathetic automatons. On desire paths
you could break out, explore, feel your way across the landscape.
- Nick Crane, Two degrees west
Desire
Paths - Flickr
ENGAGEMENT
Wiki
Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's definition of 'flow'
is the capacity for full engagement in an activity which creates
an environment in which bringing ou the best comes first.
ETHIC TOURISM
"Where the tourist actively searches for ethnic exoticism."
(anthropologist Pierre van den Berghe)
EXPERIENTIAL
TOURISM
Experiential travel emphasizes learning by doing. What you
do as being as important as where you go.
GREENWASH
Greenwash is a term that critics give to the practice of giving
a positive public image environmentally unsound practices. Wikipedia
GUILT TRIP
Some of us don't want to go on this ride.
POLITICS
Kinky Friedman: Politics: "Poly means more than one, and
ticks are bloodsucking parasites."
NGOs
Short for 'Non Governmental Organizations' -- the question
is how apt is the term if the organization is headed by a former
government employee or if the "NGO" serves as stepping
stone to government office? Another term "civil society"
is also dubious and much of the "society" is not very
civil with one another.
Non-governmental
organization - Wikipedia
TRAVEL VERSUS TOURISM
Travel is based on the revolutionary idea that amatueurs (tourists)
can move to other places with a minimum of hassle. Tourism is
something else. |
