A leitmotif in scholarship on travel texts has been themes of power and privilege. It is not clear, however, whether the more populist, egalitarian and non-elitist form of travel media, travel blogs, fits into this pattern. This article considers the role of power in how bloggers press authenticity into service as a marker of value in travel. It argues that they use authenticity to place themselves in a position of privilege and power over the local people they interact with. It identifies three forms of traveller authenticity – experience, existence and expectation – as a framework to study structures of power, privilege and dominance implicit in travel as revealed by its use in travel blogs. These forms of authenticity all demonstrate the traveller’s positioning of the self at the centre of the gaze on others. This has application for future theorising on the label of ‘authenticity’ as a tool of power.

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如果我说您是真实的，那么您就是真实的：旅行博客中透露的权力和特权

关于旅行文本的学术主题一直是权力和特权的主题。但是，尚不清楚这种民粹，平等和非精英的旅行媒体，旅行博客是否适合这种模式。本文考虑了权力在博主如何将真实性推向服务中作为旅行价值标记的作用。它认为，他们利用真实性将自己置于与他们互动的当地人的特权和权力位置。它确定了旅行者真实性的三种形式-经验，存在和期望-作为研究旅行隐含的权力，特权和统治结构的框架，该框架通过在旅行博客中的使用而揭示。这些真实性形式都证明了旅行者将自己定位于他人视线的中心。