Hasso Spode

Kiew22

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev

Fac. of Sociology

BA "Comparative Sociology of Europe" (Prof. Kutsenko)

10/2022

Tourism as a journey through time with a return ticket

Prof. Dr. Hasso Spode

Technische Universität Berlin, HAT, Hardenbergstr. 16-18, D-10623 Berlin

www.hasso-spode.de

The birth of the romantic (i.e. tourist) gaze at nature and history:

today

A basic but not a reason: the tansport revolutions:

Tourism is not = travel (although in English often mixed). Tourism is a special form of travel (or horizontal mobility, resp.), namely travel without a real purpose. It is consumption of spaces, symbols and experiences. The birth of tourism in 18th century Europe is a result of a new concept of time in face of the acceleration of the social development, the so-called "progess". While enlightenment praised the progess, romanticism condemmed it. In this connection a new view on the "nature" emerged; it turmed from an enemy into a friend. The lecture erxplains this novel, typically European form of travel into "the nature" and "the past". In addition - if there is enough time - it gives an overview of the rise of tourism from an elite practice to a global mass phenomenon.