The relevance of the categories of Taste and Landscape, to the paradigm of Environmental Tourism

Abstract

The modern social Taste (Preferences) of the middle class, now largely redirected to the products of cultural tourism and tourism of nature, includes a new global concept about Aesthetics and Art, new moral and ethics values face to nature, heritage, environment and their global concept, Cultural Landscape, by the influence of Environmental Philosophy and Ethics. The concept of landscape cannot be reduced to a visual direction and includes several dimensions, aesthetics and ethics: admiring the landscape embraces the tactile appeal, the kinaesthetic pleasure, the natural songs... These rich dimensions are relevant to the new paradigm of environmental tourism (cultural tourism and tourism of nature) and their hermeneutics, including aesthetics categories and parallel aesthetics categories that will be analysed. The landscape is not an open book, intelligible empirically, In our critical stand point we wants to reveal that what constitutes a tourist resource is a humanized cultural landscape. Reading and interpretation of the cultural landscape is the basis for the creation of the tourist product and its first metamorphosis of value. It’s the ecology of the landscape (material heritage) and its metaphysics (immaterial heritage), which constitute the essence of tourist resource, but only when their interpretation and reading gives it a new increase in cultural and economic value.