Travel often provides situations and contexts where people confront alternative possibilities for belonging to the world and others that differ from everyday life. Indeed, part of the promise of travel is to live and know the self in other ways (1992:183).
As already noted, Selwyn (1996a.).draws a groundbreaking distinction between "hot authenticity" and "cool- authenticity". His "hot auth-
enticity", in relation to myths of the authentic self, is a specific expression of existential version. This becomes more evident when he refers to authenticity as the "alienation-smashing feeling". Similarly, what Brown (1996) calls "authentically ... hedonistic ...good time" illustrates the temporal characteristic of existential authenticity.
Thus, existential authenticity, unlike object-related version, can often have nothing to do with the issue of whether toured objects are real. In search of tourist experience which is existentially authentic, tourists are preoccupied with an existential state of Being activated by certain tourist activities. To put it another way, existential experience is the authenticity of Being which, as a potential, is to be subjectively or intersubjectively sampled by tourists as the process of tourism unfolds Daniel's (1996) dance performance can be used to exemplify existential authenticity. Linked to tourism dance performance, such as rumba in Cuba, it is derived from tourists' participation in the event rather than from merely being spectators of it.
Many tourists are drawn into participation by the amiable feelings, sociability, and the musical and kinesthetic elements of dance performance. Often, not knowing the rules, they do not wait to be invited to dance, but spontaneously join in. They explore their rhythmic, harmonic, and physical potential and arrive at sensations of well being, pleasure, joy, or fun, and at times, frustration as 'well.
As tourists associate these sentiments with dancing; the—dance per-
formance transforms their reality. For many tourists, the dance becomes their entire world at that particular moment. Time and tensions are suspended. The discrepancies of the real world arc postponed. As per-
forming dancers, tourists access the magical world of liminality which offers spiritual and aesthetic nourishment. Tourism, in moments of dance per-
formance, opens the door to a liminal -world that gives relief from day-
to-day, ordinary tensions-, and, for Cuban dancers and dancing tourists particularly, permits indulgence in near-ecstatic experiences (1996:789).
Here, if rumba is treated only as a toured object (spectacle), then it involves, objective authenticity in MacCannell's sense; that is, its authentiCity lies in the fact of whether it is a re-enactment of the traditional rumba. However, once it is turned into a kind of tourist activity, it constitutes.. an -alternative source of authenticity (i.e.,. exis-
tential authenticity) which has nothing to do with the issues of whether this dance is the exact re-enactment of the. traditional dance. In reality, as Daniel found out; the new elements, that is, creativity,
are always integrated into the old rumba. Thus, even though this may be inauthentic or contrived in ,MacCannell's sense, it generates a sense of existential authenticity due to its creative and cathartic .nature.
However, a question arises with regard to existential authenticity. As mentioned above, the notion in its common sense refers to "one is
Travel often provides situations and contexts where people confront alternative possibilities for belonging to the world and others that differ from everyday life. Indeed, part of the promise of travel is to live and know the self in other ways (1992:183).
As already noted, Selwyn (1996a.).draws a groundbreaking distinction between "hot authenticity" and "cool- authenticity". His "hot auth-
enticity", in relation to myths of the authentic self, is a specific expression of existential version. This becomes more evident when he refers to authenticity as the "alienation-smashing feeling". Similarly, what Brown (1996) calls "authentically ... hedonistic ...good time" illustrates the temporal characteristic of existential authenticity.
Thus, existential authenticity, unlike object-related version, can often have nothing to do with the issue of whether toured objects are real. In search of tourist experience which is existentially authentic, tourists are preoccupied with an existential state of Being activated by certain tourist activities. To put it another way, existential experience is the authenticity of Being which, as a potential, is to be subjectively or intersubjectively sampled by tourists as the process of tourism unfolds Daniel's (1996) dance performance can be used to exemplify existential authenticity. Linked to tourism dance performance, such as rumba in Cuba, it is derived from tourists' participation in the event rather than from merely being spectators of it.
Many tourists are drawn into participation by the amiable feelings, sociability, and the musical and kinesthetic elements of dance performance. Often, not knowing the rules, they do not wait to be invited to dance, but spontaneously join in. They explore their rhythmic, harmonic, and physical potential and arrive at sensations of well being, pleasure, joy, or fun, and at times, frustration as 'well.
As tourists associate these sentiments with dancing; the—dance per-
formance transforms their reality. For many tourists, the dance becomes their entire world at that particular moment. Time and tensions are suspended. The discrepancies of the real world arc postponed. As per-
forming dancers, tourists access the magical world of liminality which offers spiritual and aesthetic nourishment. Tourism, in moments of dance per-
formance, opens the door to a liminal -world that gives relief from day-
to-day, ordinary tensions-, and, for Cuban dancers and dancing tourists particularly, permits indulgence in near-ecstatic experiences (1996:789).
Here, if rumba is treated only as a toured object (spectacle), then it involves, objective authenticity in MacCannell's sense; that is, its authentiCity lies in the fact of whether it is a re-enactment of the traditional rumba. However, once it is turned into a kind of tourist activity, it constitutes.. an -alternative source of authenticity (i.e.,. exis-
tential authenticity) which has nothing to do with the issues of whether this dance is the exact re-enactment of the. traditional dance. In reality, as Daniel found out; the new elements, that is, creativity,
are always integrated into the old rumba. Thus, even though this may be inauthentic or contrived in ,MacCannell's sense, it generates a sense of existential authenticity due to its creative and cathartic .nature.
However, a question arises with regard to existential authenticity. As mentioned above, the notion in its common sense refers to "one is
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