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Aesthetic Tourism

Literal Translation
A form of tourism primarily oriented toward experiencing a culture's visual and sensory aesthetics — the food photography, the architecture, the scenery — rather than toward the people, history, or social complexity of the culture. Often aestheticises precisely the elements of a culture that have the most complex human stories underneath them.