Vitaly A. Kurennoy. (№ 384269)

Tourism is aesthetic consumption. A huge number of people spends all their efforts on the job in order to travel. They want to experience a new experience, which is aesthetic experience. Dan Maccannell, for example, believes that people go on a journey, because only as a tourist they are able to see the functioning of society as a whole. This is somewhat Marxist theory: while we are working, we are alienated, busy with their business, and only the traveller, the only tourist able to see how society functions as a whole, is an aesthetic experience.