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Collecting Experiences

Summary/Abstract: Anna Sieroń examines strategies of constructing authenticity and experiences based on the "dark tourism" in Mexico and Columbia. The intensive growth of world tourism is a result of tourists' changing needs, which are decisive in discovering new realms for tourism – such as trips to places marked by death, and following in the footsteps of drug lords. Dark tourism, built around the principle of the reality show, is the point of departure for an analysis of the concept of authenticity. Reality tours, which allow us to see social problems "first hand," are one element of networks of cultural-economic exchange now being created. At the same time, the author believes that dark tourism harnesses the need to experience powerful emotions in a world increasingly seen as boring and predictable.

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