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The paper reviews the article "Refocussing the tourist experience: the flaneur and the choraster" and relates that the purpose of the article is to theorize, and argue on behalf of, an alternative conceptual experience of tourism based on an interaction with other tourists and the host community (p. 231). The paper discusses how the authors, addressing an audience of academics in tourism studies, argue that their interactive and feminized model promotes the tourist as choraster, or someone participating in a chora (interactive space) rather than as a flaneur, who directs a masculine, hegemonic gaze on the object of tourism.

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"The article under review is: "Wearing, Betsy and Wearing, Stephen (1996). Refocussing the tourist experience: the flaneur and the choraster." Leisure Studies (15), 229-243. The purpose of the article is to theorize, and argue on behalf of, an alternative conceptual experience of tourism based on an interaction with other tourists and the host community (p. 231). The authors, addressing an audience of academics in tourism studies, argue that their interactive and feminized model promotes the tourist as choraster, or someone participating in a chora (interactive space) rather than as a flaneur, who directs a masculine, hegemonic gaze on the object..."

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