The Technological Body in Tourism Research and Praxis

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This article starts by examining the concept of mobility as a mobility circle: that is, a circular process in which the tourist's experience can be understood as a special case of a sensory-motor learning process. Technologies are then examined from a more general anthropological perspective and are considered as prostheses that extend the abilities of the tourist's body and mind and contribute to an increasingly artificial environment. Finally, the biological reevaluation of the body is considered as a general trend in many disciplines, especially anthropology and sociology. A possibly greater and enriched understanding of the tourist's technological body is proposed as a natural artefact, with new IT and VR (virtual reality) paradoxically helping to focus on the physicality and `solarity' of the body. The tourist's body is therefore seen as a particular case in which biological wellness and technologies clearly converge.

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