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Somewhat empty meeting grounds: Travelers in South India
Making ‘genuine’ contacts with local people has been defined as one of the ‘pillars’ of the ideology of independent travel. In a groundbreaking time-space budgeting survey among travelers in Kerala, India, a contradictory reality was discovered. Western trav- elers interacted mainly with local servi...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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Annals of Tourism Research
2014
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/005642.pdf |
| Summary: | Making ‘genuine’ contacts with local people has been defined as
one of the ‘pillars’ of the ideology of independent travel. In a
groundbreaking time-space budgeting survey among travelers in
Kerala, India, a contradictory reality was discovered. Western trav-
elers interacted mainly with local service providers, in an instru-
mental manner. Spontaneous contacts occurred mostly during
their travel days when situations such as sharing a train compart-
ment ‘forced’ the interaction. Interestingly, the ‘genuine’ contacts
with locals were least common on leisure days when there was
maximum freedom to look for them. The interest for difference
was apparently satisfied in less demanding engagements. An anal-
ysis of the spatiotemporalities of the traveler everyday challenged
and gave measure to several assumed features of travel culture. |
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| Physical Description: | p.270–282 44 (2014) |