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Indian Tourist Guide Books


Indian Tourist Guide Books
This paper compares the articles "Mediating India" by Deborah Bhattacharyya, "The Tourist Gaze 'Revisited'" by John Urry and "Tourist Agency" by MacCannell.
767 words (approx. 3.1 pages) | 3 sources | MLA | 2007 United States


Paper Summary:

The paper discusses Bhattacharyya's belief that the "Lonely Planet" guidebook shapes how westerners see India and how they interact with their Indian hosts. The paper explains how she posits that the text reflects western biases and that tourists tend to interact with Indians through the distorting lens of their own cultural paradigms. The paper then looks at John Urry's idea that the "tourist gaze" is sub-consciously shaped by the tourist books and examines MacCannell's partly similar beliefs.

From the Paper:

"At the core of her paper, Bhattacharyya appears to be insisting that tourists books - like the western travelers they inform - reduce the Orient to something akin to spectacle and that they "leave out" things which might seem mundane or insignificant to western eyes (387). For his part, John Urry does not seem to dispute this. Particularly, he writes that the "tourist gaze" is sub-consciously shaped by the tourist books that provide so much of his or her information; he also writes that western society is notably "ocular-centric" and that it places special emphasis upon what is seen rather than what is heard or smelled or even touched (Urry, 174-178)."

Sample of Sources Used:

  • Bhattacharyya, Deborah. "Mediating India: An Analysis of a Guidebook." Annals of Tourism Research, 24.2 (1997): 371-389.
  • MacCannell, "Tourist Agency." Tourist Studies, 1.1 (2001): 23-37.
  • Urry, John. "The Tourist Gaze 'Revisited'." American Behavioral Scientist, 30.2 (1992): 172-186.

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APA Citation:

Indian Tourist Guide Books (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 13, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Comparison-Essay-Indian-Tourist-Guide-Books/99835

MLA Citation:

"Indian Tourist Guide Books" 15 January 2012. Web. 13 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Comparison-Essay-Indian-Tourist-Guide-Books/99835>




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