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Weiss-Laxer, Nomi. "Consuming Copacabana: Images of Security and Strategies of Exclusion in Brazil's Tourism Capital" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, Fairmont Hotel, Mar 23, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p88940_index.html>

Weiss-Laxer, N. , 2005-03-23 "Consuming Copacabana: Images of Security and Strategies of Exclusion in Brazil's Tourism Capital" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, Fairmont Hotel Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p88940_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Many scholars of tourism have focused their research on the impact of “leisure” and “recreation” tourism on local cultures. Two of the foundational texts in tourism studies, Dean MacCannell’s The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class (1999 [1976]) and John Urry’s The Tourist Gaze (2002 [1990]) do not make sufficiently concrete distinctions between different types of tourists. MacCannell defines tourists as “sightseers” from the “international middle-class” or, more philosophically, models “for the modern-man-in-general” (1999: 9-10). Urry, on the other hand, is much more concerned with the impact of the “tourist gaze” on a place than with the actual tourist; it can be inferred that for Urry a tourist is anyone who travels to a new place for the purpose of leisure, and or, as he puts it, for “the opposite of regulated or organized work” (2002: 2-3). A more recent scholar, David Fennell (2003 [1999]), contextualized his study on ecotourism by identifying two types of tourism: “mass conventional tourism” and “alternative tourism.” “Alternative tourism,” according to Fennell, operates on the philosophy that tourists’ needs are not more important than local needs and local environmental concerns (2003: 4-6). Such research suggests by its focus, but usually does not explicitly spell out, other possible kinds of tourism and their possible impact on local cultures and societies. This paper addresses such omissions by constructing a typology of tourist categories. I argue that a more nuanced categorization scheme of tourism is necessary for my analysis of image crafting and exclusion, with respect to Copacabana. As Table 1 illustrates, tourism can be categorized according to the kinds of activities tourists seek and how familiar these tourists are or want to become with the tourist area’s norms, customs and history.

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