Geography 2144A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: In Bruges, Chav, White Trash
19 Dec 2017
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Monday, September 18 2017
Lecture Two
Article: A nasty little piece of smug class warfare
Chav - tourist that is - e.g., low class, drinks lots of beer, “white trash”
•When go on vacation you want people similar to you - e.g. age
Youtube: National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983) Trailer
•First vacation tends to be with our family
•Have no choice of where to go, what to do, etc.
•Our prospect isn’t accounted for
Youtube: My Life in Ruins - Official Trailer
•Main character loves the history of Greece so she becomes a tour guide
•Teaches the greek literature, art, etc. to her tourists
•The tourists however aren’t interested in what she’s interested about Greece
•Every nationality of tourists have different interests to know about Greece
•She begins to understand that all tourists are different
Youtube: In Bruges Trailer
•“if I grew up at a farm and I was retarded, Bruges might impress me, but I wasn’t and
I’m not” (1:47)
•Same location, same space, different perceptions and different kinds of tourism
The Leisure Paradox
•Time discretion and Income discretion
•Children - lots of time, no money
•Adult - some time, some money
•Older adult (when kids get jobs) - some time, lots of money
•Seniors - more time, no money
•Time and money always seem to be opposite each other
The Classification of Tourists (after Cohen)
•Organized Mass Tourists
•tourist bubble
•in the resort
•usually going to get a break from work/stress to unwind not for the cultural
experience
•Individual Mass Tourists
•venture outside
•individual tours, rent vehicle, etc.
•use hotel as bass but do independent touring
•Explorer
•wants to see and observe destinations
•still want the same comfort level as the lifestyle they’re used to
•Drifter
•want to be where there are no other tourists
•comfortable with eating different food, speaking different languages, etc.
•much less identify him/herself as a tourist
Plog’s Classification of Tourists
•Psycho Centric - unadventurous and prefer to just stay in one place and relax
•Mid Centric - in the middle of the two - not very adventurous but are not opposed to
travels
Document Summary
Article: a nasty little piece of smug class warfare. Chav - tourist that is - e. g. , low class, drinks lots of beer, white trash : when go on vacation you want people similar to you - e. g. age. Youtube: national lampoon"s vacation (1983) trailer: first vacation tends to be with our family, have no choice of where to go, what to do, etc, our prospect isn"t accounted for. Youtube: in bruges trailer: if i grew up at a farm and i was retarded, bruges might impress me, but i wasn"t and. I"m not (1:47: same location, same space, different perceptions and different kinds of tourism. Why: safety changed after 9/11 and from the numerous terrorists attacks (especially in. Syria isn"t safe for people to visit because of the ongoing con ict right now: motivation to travel is much greater than before as well as the capability to travel.
