Speed tourism: (Record no. 14797)
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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Gross, Matthias |
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| Title | Speed tourism: |
| Sub Title | The German Autobahn as a tourist destination and location of unruly rules/ |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Sage, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2020. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Pages | Vol 20, issue 3, 2020 ( 298–313 p ) |
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| Summary, etc | The German Autobahn has inspired many people’s imagination with its lack of a general speed limit, the quality of its road surface as well as its allegedly well-behaved drivers. One of the consequences of this positive reputation has been the emergence of a phenomenon I would like to call “speed tourism.” In this article, I treat speed tourism as a special form of tourism that involves viewing the driving experience as an opportunity for either testing the capacity of one’s own car or driving it at high speed as a way of experiencing the native culture at firsthand. I explore speed tourism as an alternative way of getting to know the real Germany as a tourist. Based on an analysis of several of its peculiarities, I argue that the Autobahn can be understood as a location where tourists can mix with “locals” while keeping a distance from them, since the interaction is restricted to learning and obeying the country’s rules of the road. The Autobahn then becomes a time-bound “dream location” created by the ideal of limitless driving freedom on the one hand and the paradoxical requirement of unruliness in relation to strict rules on the other; together, these are believed to offer an “authentic” driving experience according to local cultural customs.<br/> |
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| Host Biblionumber | 12507 |
| Host Itemnumber | 17118 |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | London: Sage Publication Ltd, |
| Title | Tourist Studies / |
| International Standard Serial Number | 14687976 |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797620905786 |
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