EROSION OF LOCAL CULTURES
- Traditional crafts and activities turn into
marketable commodity and lose their
original meaning
CULTURAL HOSTILITY
- Hostility or rejection of the other and what
the represent
CULTURAL ARROGANCE
- Designing mass tourism or tourist activities
from the point of the market and what is
marketable without taking into concern the
host culture
- Not taking into regard the values and identity
of the other
THE ILLUSION OR REALITY
- Many tourist products market artificial
illusions of the other and of a static culture of
the past rather than the present reality of the
host culture
AUTHENCITY OF TOURISM EXPERIENCES
- Commercialized objects and products
accepted as authentic
- The authentic marketed “as is”
CULTURE CHANGE AND CULTURAL DIFUSION
- All cultures changes
- Tourism adds to the change and the
interaction with others
CULTUR DIFFUSION
- The spread of cultural elements such as
ideas, styles, food, religions, technology etc
CULTURE BORROWING
- Borrowing each other’s traditions, customs
or values
CULTURE DRIFT
- Temporary, random cultural change
ACCULTURATION
- Between stronger culture and a weaker
CULTURE ADAPTION
- Adaption to elements of the other’s culture
CULTURE ADJUSTMENT
1.Honeymoon stage
2.Hostility stage
3.Integration/Acceptance stage
4. Home stage
CULTURE ASSIMILATION
Assimilation might lead to total disappearance of
the host culture
ENCULTURATION
- Learning of what is contained in culture
- Learning the accepted norms and values
- Learning the practices and being aware of
differences
DEMONSTRATION EFFECT
Adapting to the styles and manners of the other
CULTURAL CONFLICT
- Cultural conflicts are more dangerous today
than at any other time in history (Vaclav
Havel)
- The Globalized world force people to interact
and to relate to values and structures of their
own societies