ABSTRACT
This chapter dissects the nature of tourism as a sacred journey, which – anthropologically speaking – aims to reconstruct the social scaffolding. It analyzes the limitations of mobilities and media expansion as two factors that led surely towards a hyper-global world, paving the way for the rise of modern terrorism. The chapter is vital to interrogate the nature and evolution of hospitality as a main institution of the West. It debates the meaning of hospitality avoiding the prejudices and caveats found in the business-related vocabulary. The chapter intends to reflect the ebbs and flows of hospitality as well as the contours of reciprocity among states. It reminds us that the essence of evilness consists in the lack of ethics that grants hospitality, in the same way that God will protect us in the afterlife. According to the United States National Tourism Office Travel and Tourism Indicators, almost 60% of Argentinian citizens who entered the country visited New York.
