Critical Tourism
Critical tourism may sound like an oxymoron. We don't "tour" to exercise our brains. A "vacation" is literally an emptying out, a voiding of daily experience and responsibility. Vacations are supposed to be fun, but then some of us get off on critical thinking. (Lippard 1999, 4)
"We work really hard on these trips [reality tours to migrant workplaces, etc.]. We're trying to make sense of the world around us." (A tour guide, quoted in Lippard 1999, 146)
(c) David Kolb, 1 August 2001