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Pseudo-Authenticity and Tourism: Preservation, Miniaturization, and Replication

Pseudo-Authenticity and Tourism: Preservation, Miniaturization, and Replication

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Insights in Tourism

Business GeneralAnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1032272104
ISBN13: 9781032272108
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 31 2023
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This book explores the concept of authenticity in tourism through the analysis of six tourist sites in Guangdong Province and Macau, China.

Through a review of tourism literature, it develops the concept of pseudo-authenticity in which tourist sites and cultural products function to give signs of authenticity for tourists. This is achieved through the influence of media, authentic fakery, and façadism. Readers will gain greater insight into tourist sites in China that operate through cultural preservation, the miniaturization of cultural assets, and the replication of foreign signs through reproductions of foreign cities. The authors outline the tourist sites, an aesthetic analysis, on-site interviews with tourists, and an examination of online reviews of the sites.

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