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Influence Of Tourism On The Destination Being Advertised By Wendy Hesford And Brenda Brueggemann

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Tourism websites often glaze over the potential dangers or drawbacks of the destination being advertised as a method to entice travelers to visit. Advertisers provide tourists with both excitement and comfort by balancing the portrayal of differences and similarities between destinations and western-civilization which are both tactics depicted by Wendy Hesford and Brenda Brueggemann in "Travelling Gazes: Shaping Mobile Identities". Elements of style are also used in advertisements to lure tourists to a destination as explained by Catherine Lutz and Jane Collins in "The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes". Chicago, Illinois shamelessly uses these methods to highlight the art, landscape, and attractions of the city in their tourism advertisements and to detract from the issues with crime rates, safety, and poverty that are depicted in newspapers such as The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Reporter, and The New York Times. These sources as well as "Community characteristics and in-school criminal victimization" (Richard Clark and Steven Lab), "School Violent Crime and Academic Achievement in Chicago" (Julia Burdick-Will), and various tourism websites will aid in my discussion of the misleading advertisements used to characterize Chicago.

The art that cities choose to include in both their art galleries and on their streets characterize how the city wants to be represented. Chicago has an array of art galleries and street art which can be predominantly found downtown. One of

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