Fonte: Journal of Tourism & Development; v. 2, n. 21/22 (2014); 425-439
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Resumo: The concept of the tourist gaze (Urry, 1996) quickly evolved from a primary visualism to an embodied multisensory experience (Urry & Larsen, 2011). It is an individual tourist experience that can be understood in the light of cognitive neurosciences (Damásio, 2013), but at the same time, it is a team process (Carron & Brawley, 2012) where the gaze of each person conditions and is conditioned by the gaze of others elements of the group. This study confirms that the tourist gaze is not only based on the binary relation of Foucault's clinical gaze, but in a relational practice (Urry & Larsen, 2011) in which the collective gazers (Larsen, 2011) of package tours converge to identical opinions on the destination, even with totally different initial perceptions, on an organized team gazing.
