Virtual Pilgrimage: An Irrealist Approach

IF 0.5 Q4 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM TOURISM CULTURE & COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2020-10-30 DOI:10.3727/109830420x15991011535517

R. Tzanelli

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Abstract

In this reflective essay I revise the relationship between travel as an embodied secular journey and pilgrimage as a sacred ritual via examinations of websurfing as a form of virtual pilgrimage. My main premise is that virtual travel facilitated by the internet and through various digital platforms and collaborative social media should be considered as a novel secular form of metamovement we can approach as a pilgrimage. This pilgrimage produces multiple versions of reality ("world versions"), both in collaboration with corporate internet design and independently from it. Because such nonembodied secular engagement with other places and cultures produces online "travel" communities, digital pilgrimage prompts us to revisit John Urry's "tourist gaze" thesis and Keith Hollinshead's "worldmaking authority" in a critical fashion. Critical reconsideration of these two influential theses involves a closer inspection of metamovement for its aesthetic parameters, as well as their affording of creative connections between the mind (internalism) and the world (externalism) as a form of travel. Such connections can also assist in the production of conventional tourism mobilities.

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虚拟朝圣:一种不现实的方法

在这篇反思性的文章中，我通过对网络冲浪作为一种虚拟朝圣形式的考察，修正了旅行作为一种具体化的世俗旅行和朝圣作为一种神圣仪式之间的关系。我的主要前提是，通过互联网和各种数字平台以及协作社交媒体促进的虚拟旅行应该被视为一种新的世俗元运动形式，我们可以将其视为朝圣。这种朝圣产生了现实的多个版本(“世界版本”)，既与企业网页设计合作，也独立于企业网页设计。因为这种与其他地方和文化的非实体的世俗接触产生了在线“旅行”社区，数字朝圣促使我们以批判的方式重新审视约翰·厄里的“游客凝视”论文和基思·霍林斯黑德的“世界制造权威”。对这两个有影响力的论点进行批判性的重新思考，包括对其美学参数的元运动的更仔细的检查，以及它们作为一种旅行形式在心灵(内在主义)和世界(外在主义)之间提供的创造性联系。这种联系也有助于生产传统的旅游交通工具。

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TOURISM CULTURE & COMMUNICATION HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-

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期刊介绍： Tourism, Culture & Communication is the longest established international refereed journal that is dedicated to the cultural dimensions of tourism. The editors adopt a purposefully broad scope that welcomes readers and contributors from diverse disciplines and who are receptive in a wide variety of research methods. While potential cultural issues and identities are unlimited, there is a requirement that their consideration should relate to the tourism and hospitality domain. Tourism, Culture & Communication provides readers with multidisciplinary perspectives that consider topics and fields extending beyond national and indigenous cultures as they are traditionally understood and recognized. Coverage may extend to issues such as cultural dimensions of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), gender and tourism, managing tourists with disabilities, sport tourism, or age-specific tourism. Contributions that draw upon the communications literature to explain the tourism phenomenon are also particularly welcome. Beyond the focus on culture and communications, the editors recognize the important interrelationships with economies, society, politics, and the environment. The journal publishes high-quality research and applies a double-blind refereeing process. Tourism, Culture & Communication consists of main articles, major thematic reviews, position papers on theory and practice, and substantive case studies. A reports section covers specific initiatives and projects, “hot topics,” work-in-progress, and critical reviews.