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Tourism
Culture
Culture

Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of

knowledge, experience, beliefs, values,
attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion,
notions of time, roles, spatial relations,
concepts of the universe, and material
objects and possessions acquired by a
group of people in the course of generations
through individual and group striving.
 Cultural Shock
• Culture shock refers to feelings of uncertainty, confusion, or
anxiety that people may experience when moving to a new
country or surroundings.
• Culture shock can occur when people move to a new city or
country, go on vacation, travel abroad, or study abroad for
school.
• A cultural adjustment is normal and is the result of being in an
unfamiliar environment.
• Culture shock is typically divided into four stages: the
honeymoon, frustration, adaptation, and acceptance stage.
• Over time, people can become familiar with their new
surroundings as they make new friends and learn the customs,
leading to an appreciation of the culture.
 Mass Follow
Class
“Mass follow class” suggests that
a destination first attracts a small
number of high-status individuals
whose actions are eventually
copied by a large number of
persons with lower social status.
The Importance of Cul
Tourism
• Cultural tourism provides values that range from enriching local
heritage to acting as a major revenue source for countries
around the world.
• Cultural tourists are often inclined to return year after year, so
they provide a steady stream of income to their hosts.
• Culture attracts visitors who often have sufficient disposable
income, meaning that it plays an important role as a driver of
economic growth and stability.
• Cultural tourism has emerged as one of the fastest-growing
sectors in the global tourism industry.
Cultural factors with Toursit appeal
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   Diaspora tourism
• Diaspora tourism is a form of ethnic and personal heritage tourism, wherein people from
various backgrounds travel to their homelands in search of their roots, to celebrate
religious or ethnic festivals, to visit distant or near relatives, or to learn something about
themselves (Coles and Timothy 2004).
• Significant numbers of people from various diasporas travel to their homelands each
year in fulfillment of predictions that heritage tourism is as much related to the individual
and social identities of the tourists themselves as it is about the historic places they visit.
• African Americans and British, particularly those who have descended from the slave
trade, are especially ardent travelers to Africa. For these tourists, the journey is
particularly profound but complicated, often wreaking havoc on their emotions and
identities as black Americans or British.
• Many of them seek forgiveness, healing, and closure; others seek revenge and are
stirred to anger against the white European and American perpetrators of slavery
(Teyeand Timothy 2004; Timothy and Teye 2004)
 Living Tourism

• Living culture is an important part of heritage tourism. Agricultural landscapes,

agrarian lifestyles, arts and handicrafts, villages, languages, musical traditions,
spiritual and religious practices, and other elements of the cultural landscape
provide much of the appeal for tourism.
• Rice paddies and farming techniques, traditional architecture and building
materials, intricate clothing and cloth, exotic-sounding music, vibrant
ceremonies, and unusual fragrances and flavors are part of the appeal.
• An interesting and vital part of living culture is culinary heritage, cuisine, and
foodways. The foods, preparatory methods, food-associated rites and rituals.