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At her relative's farm that the author of Anne of Green Gables used as a model, a barn is being constructed to make the farm more like what is depicted in the book.
To an ever greater degree the work of art reproduced becomes the work of art designed for reproducibility." Benjamin 1968, 226
Is this also true of tourism? Places not just designed to be seen, but designed to be reproduced, to be used as brands, to fit on coffee mugs and tee shirts.