Mary Mostafanezhad talks with Dean MacCannell about the concept of authenticity.

1.     Where does the question of authenticity originate?

2.     What do you think are some of the biggest challenges of the authenticity concept?

3 What do you think are biggest misconceptions about authenticity in tourism research/among tourism researchers? 

4 The interest in dichotomizing authentic/inauthentic persists in the industry and in much academic research. What are your views on this?

5 Why do you think tourism researchers often argue that authenticity is difficult to define? What contributes to this complexity?

6 Why do yuo think authenticty has had such a long shelf-life in tourism studies?

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