This article develops the idea of tourism as a phenomena that adapts history to current trends and displaces the tourist in the quest for authenticity. It also links vacation to a growing virtual filter that we develop as a result of technological interceptors. The resultant effect is a "framed" experience where the natural landscape is controlled to create image for consumption.
The latter part of the article looks at the vacation home as a phenomena linked with technology that combines to hybridize the experience of destination, vacation and home. It identifies the window as a device that controls the experience and becomes the currency of vacation. The connection that the window has to other view-devices such as the TV and the windshield establishes the mode by which we perceive the vacation experience and largely our everyday.
It seems that we are moving closer to a virtual experience of the world home and abroad. I believe that the quest for authenticity will hinder total virtual immersion. However the environmental neglect leads us closer to a virtual-natural hybrid as we move willingly to a desolation of our roots. There also seems to be a general repulsion of virtual because of its shortcomings in producing believable reality.
Are we going to succumb to this virtual (somewhat real) environment aspects? Are we less aware of the integration of the virtual? We tend to access nature as needed, what level of accessibility are we willing to relinquish?
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