2017
DOI: 10.33697/ajur.2017.015
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How to Become a “Real Chicagoan” in No Time: The Promise and Pedagogy of Walking Tourism

Abstract: This study takes seriously the tourist’s desire to feel like a local and examines how walking tour guides work toward fulfilling that desire. The paper examines some of the techniques used by urban walking tour guides to convey local cultural cues. The tourist, armed with these cues, may feel able to fit into a new culture as a quasi-insider. Through qualitative methods, primarily participant observation, the researcher identifies three tactics that guides implement to make the tourist to feel like a local. Th… Show more

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