Applying Habermas to Tourism

Abstract

It is the end of a hot day of lazing about on the beach with what feels like half of the entire population of northern Europe. We have had a proper English, Bangladeshi curry for our tea (what others more refined might call dinner, or supper), and we have walked across town against the flow of Dutch and Germans just starting to go out for their evening meals. Now we are sitting in the Turbo Rock Pub which is in the Centro Commercial Kasbah in the huge tourist destination of Playa del Ingles, Gran Canaria. Rammstein, an industrial metal band from Berlin, are on the sound system, and the bikers in the bar are howling their appreciation and headbanging away.