The summer trade: a history of tourism on prince Edward Island

can indeed provide opportunities for alterative and more complex narratives on architecture and culture, as the author suggests, or whether bodily visits will simply reinforce the strong preconceptions that are systematically reinforced by the abundance of virtual exposure is a question that can again be redirected to architectural or tourism histories and other critical scholarship. Perhaps it is not the act of travel that can ultimately ‘shake us out of complacency’ (p. 41) but an increased level of criticality--and thus more critical historical work-about the very ways in which buildings, monuments, and culture are appropriated by tourism trends.