Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives—from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango—with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to- date scripts for actors on the tourists’ stage.
ATTRIBUTION:
Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914), U.S. historian. The Image, ch. 3 (1961).
