Is globalisation affecting the cultural experience of a traveller?
By muneer1
@muneer1 (6)
Bahrain
January 15, 2007 4:52am CST
They say that travelling promotes a better co-existance of people through a better understanding of cultures.
What role then does the globalisation and standerdisation of major hotel and restaurant chains play in all this.
If they prevent a traveller from experiencing a culture, an experience which would possibly pave the way for better understanding of people around the world, should something be done about it?
I would like to know thoughts centred around this topic and different views,
your global nomad,
M
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1 response
@Tetchie (2932)
• Australia
10 Feb 07
One way to look at those motel chains is that they have monopolised on the fearful traveler. Familiarity helps when someone is putting their big toe in the deep end and traveling to foreign countries. Some people have no problem walking the Sahara, others would never sleep in a trailor park.
Knowing you can always go back to the motel that has a clean shower, clean sheets and food that you can name helps. The tourist can go off and be with the locals by day and go back to their comforts by night.
It does promote a better co-existence, because some people would never go outside their own home town unless they knew something was going to be familiar to them.
And to those that are more adventurous then they can stay with whom and wherever they like. Choices.
