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Tuesday Aug 13, 2024
Tuesday Aug 13, 2024
On the tourist city, the tourist industry, and its critics.
Renowned Italian journalist Marco d'Eramo joins us to talk about his wide-ranging inquiry into the age of tourism, The World in a Selfie. We also discuss how migration is the obverse of tourism, and take a look at Marco's most recent book, Masters, on the neoliberal revolution from above.
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Why is hating tourists the main characteristic of being a tourist? Why is the tourist/traveller dichotomy a false one?
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What is the threshold for a city becoming a place that exists primarily for tourists?
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How should we understand tourism economically, and why is the tourist city a mono-industry?
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Is the "authentic" travel experience ever possible?
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Why do critiques of tourism so often slide into snobbery or outright class contempt?
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How is the city changing under the impact not just of "over-tourism" but rising rents, exclusions, and remote working?
Links:
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The World in a Selfie: An Inquiry into the Tourist Age, Marco d'Eramo, Verso
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Masters: The Invisible War of the Powerful Against Their Subjects, Marco d'Eramo, Wiley
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Barbed Wire, Marco D'Eramo, Sidecar
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The cost of Europe’s backlash against tourists, Barney Jopson, Financial Times
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