The tourist craves the authentic.(a)

I like Ripley's, it's unique... but it costs to get in (1.)

Is that the castle?... Someday we'll take you to Europe and show you a real castle. (2.)

Sight : the "noblest of the senses". (b)

Tourism feeds this desire through the construction of authenticity;the tourist agrees to the terms with no sense of loss.(c)

Things are read as signs of themselves, idealized and often frustrated, hence the structural role of disappointment in the touristic experience.(d)

The melancholic experience objectifies everything into a souvenir, "freezing" its death... Frozen in time, these corpses can only be understood spatially as volumes and textures, promptly qualifying for an aesthetic scenifica tion. (e)

The presence of the original is the prerequisite to the concept of authenticity.(f)