Hospitality without sacrifice? The case of receptive tourism
Keywords:
hospitality, gift, receptive tourism,Abstract
The current article aims to evidence the virtualities of the gift that subsist in the commercial system, especially in the receptive tourism, considering tourism as a product of the overlapping of these two systems of exchange: the commercial and the gift; the first one, more recent and socially visible prevailed for the written laws of the commerce and the defense of the consumer; the second one ancestral and more difficult of being reached by the empirical observation prevailed by the non-written laws of the gift. Our observation will be guided for what happens beyond the combined exchange, beyond the monetary value of a rendered service, for what people and spaces give beyond the established contract. Many local communities see the tourists as “invaders” of their area, producing a kind of resistance during the act of receiving; therefore, there is no hospitality without sacrifice, but is primordial to understand the tourist load not as the volume of visitors that a place may receive, but as a space and a life which live in it, accepting that tourism planning is, actually, the planning of the hospitality that a territory can and wants to provide.
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