Prof Julio Aramberri on freedom, progress, and academia’s ‘scissors crisis’
Julio Aramberri reckons contemporary tourism academia tends to focus on either “pointless pragmatism” or “shrill reproof”; the excesses of ‘Right’ and ‘Left’.
But ‘progress’ is nuanced and can be pointed to in amusing ways: “Little could Marx imagine that the wishful ‘workers of all lands, unite’ carved in his Highgate grave would come true … on the sunny beaches and while wearing swimsuits.”
Saverio Bertolucci and Peter Smith interviewed Prof Aramberri for a Tourism’s Horizon Interview. For this “Good Tourism” Insight, here’s a short reflection by Jim Butcher. [The full transcript is on Substack.]
Contents
- Who is Professor Julio Aramberri?
- Freedom to, freedom from, freedom conflated
- Progress = creative destruction
- When academic traditions talk past each other
- What do you think?
- About the author
- About the Tourism’s Horizon Interviews
- Featured image (top of post)
Who is Professor Julio Aramberri?
Julio Aramberri recently returned to his native Spain after a lifetime engaged with the world of tourism; as a tourist, as Spanish state tourism executive, and as an academic.
Followers of discussions on tourism in the universities will know that Professor Aramberri has swum against the tide. He has written, often in uncompromising fashion, against mantras related to sustainability, the influence of ‘postmodernism’ in the universities, and much else.
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