class tourism

From the beginning, professional photography typically meant the broader kind of class tourism, with most photographers combining surveys of social abjection with portraits of celebrities or commodities (high fashion, advertising) or studies of the nude.

1977, Susan Sontag, “Melancholy Objects”, in On Photography, New York: Picador, published 2001, page 57

2002, R. M. Vaughan, interview transcribed in Michelle Berry and Natalee Caple (editors), The Notebooks: Interviews and New Fiction from Contemporary Writers, Anchor Canada, p. 439, I despise those books. They’re nothing but the worst sort of class tourism. The idea that Atlantic Canadians are the colourful peasantry of the nation enrages me.

The matter of whether Hawaii is to be given over to “mass” or “class” tourism will obviously have been settled by then, and in favor of the former, for the early 1970s will see the 500-passenger “Jumbo” jets come winging in.

1968, Richard Austin Smith, chapter 8, in The Frontier States: Alaska, Hawaii,, New York: Time-Life Books, page 151

The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, which opened Washington’s home as a national shrine in 1860, reacted ambivalently toward later proposals for electric streetcar service between Washington and Mount Vernon. They worried that the “wrong sort” of people would flood their property. Indeed, they felt that mass tourism as opposed to class tourism could compromise the diffusion of Washington’s legacy.

2011, Daniel Bluestone, chapter 10, in Buildings, Landscapes, and Memory: Case Studies in Historic Preservation, New York: W.W. Norton, page 242