Geography 2144A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Global City, Mumbai Meri Jaan, Brining
15 Apr 2018
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Theroux: my destination was an excuse to take the trip, one of the paradoxes of otherness is that in travel each conceives the other to be a foreigner, travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with distance or the exotic. Despair is the armchair; it is indifference and glazed incurious eyes. By being kept in one place, there is no risk of their interrupting the flow of local life. Giorgio morandi: one can travel this world and see nothing, to achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things but to look hard at what you do see. Drifter: vancouver: beijing, lima, fiji and st. petersburg, la, paris, stockholm, barbados, veradero, Tahiti: las vegas, orlando, bahamas, punta cana, Demand for tourism: canadians are a source of visitors to usa, demand shifters, safety, security, politics, economy and seasonality.
