Touristic ethnicity: a brief itinerary

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Touristic ethnicity is increasingly important for understanding ethnic relations, culture and identity in the world today. Empirically, this reflects the spread and importance of the tourism industry and its many ramifications for ethnicity. Theoretically, it is argued that the study of touristic ethnicity constitutes a particularly fruitful strategy for deepening our understanding of the construction of ethnic identities and relations generally. This two-pronged empirical and theoretical argument is developed in relation to three phenomena: 1) tourism as a form of ethnic relations; 2) the development of touristic ethnic cultures, in which interaction with tourism becomes an integral part of the construction of ethnic identity; and 3) the dedifferentiation of the tourist realm, such that touristic modes of visualization and experience become characteristics of the expression and consumption of ethnicity.

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