TY - JOUR
T1 - Searching for jewish answers in indian resorts
T2 - The postmodern traveler
AU - Maoz, Darya
AU - Bekerman, Zvi
PY - 2010/4
Y1 - 2010/4
N2 - The paper aims to contribute to the debate concerning the analytical value of fixed categories and argues that the construction of such categories is problematic. It investigates aspects of what cannot be classified either as " pure" travel or as typical pilgrimage or religious tourism, and argues that these and other definitions and are no longer suitable for examining a touristic experience we see as complex, full of contradictions, and-in other words-postmodern. We will adopt an emic perspective in order to learn about the tourists' views and self-perception, abandoning the more etic approach that has usually been adopted in tourism study and research.
AB - The paper aims to contribute to the debate concerning the analytical value of fixed categories and argues that the construction of such categories is problematic. It investigates aspects of what cannot be classified either as " pure" travel or as typical pilgrimage or religious tourism, and argues that these and other definitions and are no longer suitable for examining a touristic experience we see as complex, full of contradictions, and-in other words-postmodern. We will adopt an emic perspective in order to learn about the tourists' views and self-perception, abandoning the more etic approach that has usually been adopted in tourism study and research.
KW - Existential tourism
KW - Pilgrimage
KW - Postmodern
KW - Religious tourism
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77950164043&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.annals.2009.10.015
DO - 10.1016/j.annals.2009.10.015
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AN - SCOPUS:77950164043
SN - 0160-7383
VL - 37
SP - 423
EP - 439
JO - Annals of Tourism Research
JF - Annals of Tourism Research
IS - 2
ER -