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Is tourism always bad?
Must tourism be, by definition, as geographer Edward Relph sees it, an "inauthentic attitude to place?" Must it be, as Dean MacCannell suggests, "something insidious . . . the sucking of difference out of difference, a movement to the still higher round of the old arrogant Western Ego that wants to see it all, know it all, and take it all in?"Or will the consciously multicentered person-artist eventually be able to challenge her own pleasures and discomforts, to create a responsible tourist as well as a responsible inhabitant of unfamiliar places? I prefer David Harvey's contention that tourism is about becoming rather than being. Lippard 1999, 11