Travel in the Hyper-Real Revisiting the MacCnnellian Definition of ‘Touristic Experience’ in the Digitalized Era

Abstract

The modern relationship between ‘the tourist’ and ‘the touristic experience’ was established by De who defines it as an ‘eagerness to gain an authentic experience for the leisure class’ (1976: 2). The tou in its original sense, depends on the degree of authenticity produced by the sight offered by a relevant c In this sense, either positive or negative, there is a necessary co-relationship between the experience o the degree of authenticity maintained in the sight. As a result, the authenticity of the sight is heavily by those who manage global touristic sites. However, in the present digital culture, tourists’ orien specialty of the experience (sight) seemed to have moved further away from the holistic experience (ob of the sight to ‘ritualistically’ scrutinizing the digital devices (subjective interior) (Pfaller 2002). There phenomenons at operation today; the modern leisure class has been transformed to digitalized leisure experience was made into a computerized interface in which the viewer is made into ‘interpassivity Zizek 1997); a form of ‘self-fulfilling’ of their own subjective reception in reality (Oenen 2006), in