Third International Conference on Tourism & Leisure Studies

Abstract

A cultural studies schoalr is visiting Estonia. He is very critical of the current commericialized world tourism, which, he sees, evades, and rather excludes the chances of encountering the other’s genuine history. The packaged tourists usually skip the minority (hi)stories, staying on the track of myths and stereotypes. That is exactly how the Korean tourists are now consuming a new object of the Baltic. Alienated from this, the author will become a traveller and visit Vaivara located in the northern part of Estonia. There, he will investigate the rarely told history of killings, genocide, and concentrartion camp during the World War II. He becomes a travelling historian, a walking (post)journalist, an investigative traveller. In this way of experimental writing of history, he wants to challenge the fixed “image+naton” and invent new a “image+nation” of Estonia. This is that methodological and theoretical paper, which touches the philosophy of history, memory, and journalism, in addition to tourism versus travelling.