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Autenticitet i turisme

Translated title

Authenticity in Tourism

Authors

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Term

4. term

Education

Publication year

2008

Pages

90

Abstract

Hvad vil det sige, at noget er autentisk i turismen? Forskere har diskuteret dette i årevis, og der er uenighed om, hvorvidt autenticitet overhovedet kan opnås. Specialet giver et overblik over de vigtigste tilgange til begrebet og ordner dem med udgangspunkt i Wang: objektivisme (autenticitet som en iboende egenskab ved ting og steder), konstruktivisme (autenticitet som socialt skabt), postmodernisme (autenticitet opløses i iscenesættelse og simulering) og eksistentialisme (autenticitet som en personlig følelse af at være tro mod sig selv). Med dette rammeværk gennemføres et casestudie og en interviewundersøgelse for at undersøge en indledende hypotese, der placerer autenticitet i en postmoderne kontekst. I den postmoderne tilgang hævdes det, at autenticitet ikke findes i turisme; analysen undersøger, om og hvordan dette udsagn holder i praksis.

What does it mean for something to be authentic in tourism? Researchers have debated this for years, and there is no agreement on whether authenticity can be achieved at all. The thesis maps the main approaches to the concept and organizes them using Wang’s framework: objectivism (authenticity as an inherent property of things and places), constructivism (authenticity as socially constructed), postmodernism (authenticity dissolves into staging and simulation), and existentialism (authenticity as a personal feeling of being true to oneself). Using this framework, the thesis conducts a case study and an interview study to examine an initial hypothesis that places authenticity in a postmodern context. In the postmodern view, authenticity is claimed not to exist in tourism; the analysis explores whether and how this claim holds in practice.

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