Issue150 让砖头来得更猛烈些吧！

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Issue150 让砖头来得更猛烈些吧！
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Because of television and worldwide computer connections, people can now become familiar with a great many places that they have never visited. As a result, tourism will soon become obsolete.
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Can virtual visitation via television and computer replace tourism? From my standpoint, the tourism that people pay a visit to the place physically is indispensable no matter how abundant the people could obtain information from the electric connections. And to some extent, the television and Internet actually stimulates the prevalence of tourism worldwide.

To begin with, the electric connection is no more than one-direction information transmission while tourism provides interaction between visitors and the local people and the places of interest. On the one hand, although people manage to be familiar with the local culture, social costumes and can even perceive the landscape on screen, they fail to send their feedback neither to the local people nor to the places. People could no more than sit in front of the TV sets or computer and passively receive the information transmitted through wires or satellite signals. Worse still, the images in screen are the observation from someone else while diverse individuals might encounter various images even from the same objection. Such lack of engagement might frustrate people's desire to view the landscape or culture in their unique angles. On the other hand, the tourism -- to pay a visit to somewhere physically -- serves as an opportunity to communicate with local residents, sense the culture and touch the place of interest by oneself. No only does the concept 'tourism' contain perceiving the place, but also interacting with local people, tasting various cuisine in the right place, sensing the greatness of the landscape. As an ancient Chinese idiom goes, ' he who has never been to the Great Wall is not a real man.' Therefore, how can an individual to sense the feeling of standing on the Great Wall, chanting the enthusiasm aroused from the heart for being a real man by simply sitting in front of the screen? For this point, the electric images could by no means match a physical visitation.

Additionally, no only could tourism provide sufficient information of places remarkably different from people's habitats, but also is considered as an opportunity to escape from the realistic for a little while. Surrounded by a totally different culture or landscape from the places which people have spent almost all their lives in, people could obtain a sense of escaping from the cages of daily lives. Imagine when modern people are standing right in the Amazon rainforest, listening to the birds singing a chant and inspiring the sweet, wet air sliding around the green leaves, they could easily be free from their concrete forest, from the noises of cars, from the stining smell of sulfate dioxide released from the factory chimneys. By contrast, when perceiving the same scene on the screen, the surrounding keeps reminding the viewers that nothing has ever been changed. Up to this point, the tourism will never be obsolete since it could satisfy people's desire to change their environment for a while.

Actually, from my standpoint, television and Internet stimulate tourism instead of retreating it from its original status in people's lives. Through electric connection, people manage to gain sufficient and reliable information about their destinations, which inspires their curiosity. Driven by the curiosity, people could further arrange their schedules, routes and pack exactly everything they need and then set off. Tourism calls for detailed information to make a perfect arrangement and the Internet is obviously conductive. Furthermore, corrected information clarifies the existing prejudice to certain culture or social customs of other places. For instance, few Chinese people was willing to visit Africa since they had long believed that Africa was a wild land with ruthless savages. Or countless others had no ideas where Africa located. But as the Internet and television provide sufficient information about Africa, Chinese display remarkable interest in visiting there now. The example implies the mere fact that people would be less likely to pay a visit to places that are complete strange to them. Hence, by transmitting information, television and Internet actually spark tourism.

In sum, tourism is unlikely to be discarded in that it enables people to interact with the local residents and the place of interest rather than passively receive information in front of the screen. Moreover, tourism satisfies people’s desire to experience the place for themselves while the electric images could never accomplish this task. Therefore, television and computer connections actually promote tourism rather than takes place of it.