Tourism

                  In this article "The Tourist," writen by Dean Maccannell, is a very bold article. What I mean by this is Maccannell discusses how tourist are wondering all over the world in search of what the world is really like. But the main problem with these tourist is they really have no idea what they are searching for or looking at. Once the tourist comes across their destination they wish that nobody was around to distract them or annoy them because they want to be able to see the statue. But what Dean Maccannell is getting at here is, you don't need to be alone with the statue to be able to see it, you need to see past the statue and into its history and worth in order to enjoy it.

               Another thing Dean Maccannell wrote about that I noticed people do quite often is they don't use the important area by it's full name. For Example, people all over the world want to come to California to see San Francisco. But now people have grown accustom to calling San Francisco, "The City". Now why would something with such significants be cut short by it's name? It just doesn't seem right that something stands before us with great worth and we cut it down my not using it's name.

             When reading this article it reminded me of the people that I know have traveled, and who are traveling for the wrong reasons. It is just two people in proticular that only travel for two reasons. One, because they have the money, and two just so they can say they did it. I am happy for them that they are able to do this and hopefully bring a little culture into their life. But in the same notion, their reasons for traveling bother me. There are many people out their that would love to travel and see where they were from or feel what it was like to live a certain way. While others take advantage of it and just travel to say they did it.