The different models developed by the various tourism researchers, which will be presented in the next chapter, are based on different
sociological and philosophical modes of understanding and explaining life and reality.
In the following paragraphs, these modes will be presented briefly in their basic
conceptions. This presentation has its starting point in the approach by Wang who
introduces the terms objective, constructive, post-modernism and existentialism as
the basis for tourism research into the concept of authenticity. His approach is based on
existentialism.
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