Tourism 100 word excerpt

The Landscape of Tourism

Dalian is a city stuck between vast natural beauty and the ever-present human condition of commercialising nature resulting in an often-bizarre landscape that aptly represents China’s rapid surge for progress.  The development of theme parks alongside this natural beauty perfectly illustrates the global culture of advertising tourism to beautiful unspoilt areas that in reality come under threat through the increased visitation and development of the landscape.   Much like in the 1950s in which we saw the sprawl of the growing middle classes in the West, China is now experiencing this same phenomenon and where better to witness it than through how a culture spends it’s leisure time?

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