Every tourist site have their own peculiarity!
Their unique differences is the real beauty of what Tourism is!
When we say Tourism is multifaceted or hydra headed, do we really understand what that means? Does that really shows in our tourism practices?
Sure, some can be more attached to a place than the other base on their preferences, which is fine and acceptable. Some are fascinated by water views, it will show in their biases for waterfalls, or any waterbody, they become stereotype and only find satisfaction in Water related Tourism; some it is the love for landforms, maybe elevated places to be specific, hence their bias towards mountain climbing, mountaineering or sky diving; to some it is good food or trying different food, you count them out if it is not gastronomy; to many others it is people and culture.
Tourism is wide enough like the sky, that it gives space for every kind of birds to fly without hindrances or obstruction, it is deep enough like the ocean that house all manner of nature, so it is not bad to have a niche or practice unapologetically what part of it that suit our personal satisfaction.
But the danger comes when we make our aspect of tourism the only kind or type of tourism that exists, our stereotypic bias practices can affect both tourist and investors to think there is only one kind of tourism to invest in or practice. A truth should never become the truth! Where that happens it will jeopardize the whole truth.
To some of us that are generalist, we tend to see all these gaps, we know when people have narrow down their taste to a single meal. We must not be single-sighted! I am fascinated by the whole beauty Tourism is, every single aspect while I also have my reservations towards some but I wouldn’t count them out.
This is it, every site have a mind of their own, every tourist get connected to specific sites (they can visit everyday of the year without getting exhausted of its beauty). Satisfaction is the real deal of all that Tourism stands for. This is what the story of every site does to tourists, it gets them connected to all that it is.
Hence, every site has a story, and their story must be told, it reawaken the ‘spirit’ of a site.
Every tourist sites are fascinating enough if their stories are well presented and passed.
As Practitioners, we must preserve the peculiarity of each site. All sites have their own uniqueness, their speciality and are not meant to be compared with any other sites.
Comparison often hurt the essence!