“ There has continued to be massive growth of international tourist flows… This internationalization of tourism means that we cannot explain tourist patterns in any particular society without analyzing developments taking place in most other countries. The internationalization of tourism especially in Europe means that every tourist site can be compared with those located abroad (especially via the internet). So when people visit somewhere in their own country they are in effect choosing not to visit a site abroad. The internationalization of tourism means that all potential objects of the tourist gaze can be located on a scale, and can be compared with each other, often now more or less instantaneously via the internet.
John Urry, The Tourist Gaze, p. 45
Not that I needed any justification to make all of them.
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