Present-day mass tourism uncannily resembles an auto-immune disease. Yet, self-destructive as it may be, it is also self-regenerating, changing its appearance and purpose. They are two modes that stand in contrast to each other. We can see them as opposites that delimit a conceptual dimension ordering varieties of present-day mass tourism. The first pole calls forth tourism as a force leaving ruin and destruction in its wake or at best a sense of nostalgia for what has been lost, the other sees tourism as a force endlessly resuscitating and re-inventing itself. This paper article highlights both sides of the story. These times of the Covid-19 pandemic, with large swathes of public life emptied by social lock-down, remind us of a second, cross-cutting conceptual dimension, ranging from public space brimming with human life to its post-apocalyptic opposite eerily empty and silent. The final part of my argument will touch on imagined evocations of precisely such dystopian landscapes.

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当今大众旅游：其想象和噩梦情景。

当今的大众旅游出奇地类似于一种自身免疫性疾病。然而，尽管它可能是自我毁灭的，但它也是自我再生的，改变了它的外观和目的。它们是相互对比的两种模式。我们可以将它们视为界定当今大众旅游的概念维度排序的对立面。第一个极点将旅游业视为一种留下毁灭和破坏的力量，或者充其量是对失去的东西的怀旧感，另一个极点将旅游业视为一种无休止地复苏和重新发明自己的力量。这篇论文重点介绍了故事的两个方面。在 Covid-19 大流行期间，大量公共生活因社会封锁而被清空，这让我们想起了第二个跨领域的概念维度，从充满人类生活的公共空间到其后世界末日的对面，空旷而寂静。我论证的最后一部分将触及对这种反乌托邦景观的想象唤起。