Commodification, culture and tourism
@article{Shepherd2002CommodificationCA, title={Commodification, culture and tourism}, author={Robert J. Shepherd}, journal={Tourist Studies}, year={2002}, volume={2}, pages={183 - 201} }
This article revisits the question of tourism’s role in the commodification of culture. I argue that an acceptance of a cause and effect relationship between tourism and cultural commodification requires an acceptance of a problematic notion of ‘authenticity’. This is because the belief that tourism causes cultural commodification is based on a largely unexamined reliance on Marx’s labor theory of value, source of what Barbara Herrnstein Smith has referred to as a ‘double discourse of value…
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