"When the traveller's risks are insurable he has become a tourist" Discuss the statement and explore the correlation between the technological innovation and growth of mass-tourism.

Title: "When the traveller's risks are insurable he has become a tourist" Discuss the statement and explore the correlation between the technological innovation and growth of mass-tourism.
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"When the traveller's risks are insurable he has become a tourist" Discuss the statement and explore the correlation between the technological innovation and growth of mass-tourism.
The statement, that once "the traveller's risks are insurable he has become a tourist" , at first gives the impression that only by having insured his risks the traveller becomes a tourist. However this is not the case, the tourist has slowly evolved from the traveller and the fact of being insured is one part of this evolution. In fact the same author makes reference to this: "The traveller was active. Now he became passive. Instead …showed first 75 words of 973 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 973 total…will always demand new innovations and they will be provided. However if there are no tourists, there will be no innovations and without new innovations the tourists will stop travelling and become extinct. References "XBoorstin D.J 1987, The Image-A guide to Pseudo-events in America, chapter 3. New York: Athenaeum, Macmillan Publishing company "XUrry, J. 1990, The tourist Gaze. Leisure and Travel in contemporary societies, chapter 1. London: Sage "Xwww.world-tourism.org/newsroom/Releases/more_releases/ sept2002/september11.htm

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