GG294 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Rural Tourism, Equestrianism, Agritourism
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Hype festivals used to combat feelings of insecurity, senselessness and placelessness in public spaces. Helplessness: festivals are an oppressive force excluding and including certain people from public spaces, e. g. Olympic games vancouver construction of olympic residences displaced low-income neighborhoods: beijing ethnically unique heritage neighborhoods also poor, bulldozed to make way for buildings, olympic games, sport events, concerts - =70 per ticket or more. Urban festival spaces offer creative possibilities through temporarily suspending social relations, blurring boundaries. Powerful culture group or everyone in the community: whose culture, authenticity e. g. Nostalgia city life dirty, dark, unfriendly, unsatisfying, hard country life. Simple, close to nature, community, beautiful: post-fordism - flexible market segments, variety of choices, variable produ(cid:272)tio(cid:374) , postmodernism break down of boundaries, rejection of modernist, i(cid:374)dustrialized, ur(cid:271)a(cid:374)ized (cid:449)orld . Rural tourist motivations : nostalgia for rural life, relaxing environment, rural landscape, escape into the country, friendly hospitality, tourist attractions, some people think rural life is better than city life.
