TMGT 1P91 Lecture : TREN - Section 10 notes
15 Apr 2012
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Why would we act differently at a tourist destination than we would at home: we don"t have to take care of everything we would at home you"d be taking a break from your regular life. The ability to transcend one"s normal everyday life. Behaviourally in the pursuit of hedonistic ends. Value for money, relaxation, not having to take responsibility for something or someone. Maximizing tourism means that you"ll be going to have as much fun as you possibly can maybe at he extent of someone else. We don"t want to take responsibility for someone else. A good" vacation is that which satisfies these hedonistic ends. But tourism often suspends morality takes us away from our moral cloak". Emphasizes the value of one over the value of others. A by-product of this is innumerable costs externalities (impacts). Economic theory tells us that incentives to ignore externalities are quite strong. It"s rational to impose costs on third parties.
