Tourists and Locals - Growing Systems Thinking for “4W” Tourism
Tadeja JERE JAKULIN, University of Primorska, Slovenia
Ingrid ?ER?EK, University of Primorska, Slovenia
IGU -100-Paris 2022
“Government and Local Communities in Participatory Processes Towards Sustainable Management of World Heritage Sites”
Tourists and Locals - Growing Systems Thinking for “4W” Tourism
Prof Dr Tadeja Jere Jakulin
Ingrid ?er?ek, M.Sc.
Affiliation, Faculty of Tourism Studies- - TURISTICA, University of Primorska, Slovenia
E-mails: tadeja.jerejakulin@upr.si, ingrid.cercek@siol.net
Abstract
Tourism, as we knew, has gone. The situation in the world most affected the tourism industry, yet we must say that the tourism industry went off-limits. The consciousness of tourism participants based on the greed of low-cost carriers and passengers' desire resulted in the COVID-19 situation as a catastrophe. What could be the future of tourism? Smart tourism, boutique tourism, exploring tourism opposite of over and mass tourism. Systems thinking anticipates Rousseau's thinking – back to nature, and so does the emerging "4W" tourism for nature. For many centuries, systems thinking was not a common world-view. Consciousness pointed to separation; scientific orientation was towards the outer world and analysis. However, today we can say that everything happened at the precisely correct time. Also, analytical thinking, caused technological progress; it caused the development of science, which we now know it. It also led to the discoveries that led to quantum physics and thus the shifts of thinking for dealing with complex challenges.
Moreover, it evolved systems thinking as the next level of consciousness, becoming a mode of thinking in science and engineering in the 1950s. Today, systems consciousness becomes an emerging trend in tourism. We will explain the methodology, show the differences between analytical and systems thinking and present a new trend in special interest tourism, a "4W" tourism and tourist, who is close to nature and systems oriented.
Mots clés : systems thinking|heritage tourism|4W tourism|special interest tourism,|systems consciousness
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