The Tourist, The Resident: study

The Tourist, The Resident: An inspection of the undulating culture of modern urban tourism

Modern urban tourism has become not only an industry of travel, but also of mediation. By creating, mapping and graphing new urban topographies based on the current state of urban tourism (which relies heavily on mediation via the internet; e.g. tripadvisor.com and google.com), it is easy to see how the tourism industry clusters and only provides nodes of interaction with the city and its people, often isolating the outskirts.

Please find entire essay here: L Bancroft: The Tourist, The Resident: Inspection of Urban Tourism