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According to Pretes (1995), “contemporary society is dominated by spectacle. Tourism sights, whether natural or man-made, are spectacular” (p. 4). Debord (1996) described this phenomenon in his book “The Society of the Spectacle” (first published in 1967) as follows:
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The entire life of societies in which modern conditions of production reign announces itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation (p. 2).
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Specht, J. (2014). Architectural Tourism and the Spectaculture. In: Architectural Tourism. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-06024-4_5
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