ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the ontological powers of denial, delusion and the ideal of a holiday, but first another example from the second opera in which the power of seduction emerges to join denial and delusion with yet more tragic consequences for a tourist. Other scholars of tourism have demonstrated the potential of a wide range of representations of tourism in art forms such as in literature, film, popular music, poetry, photography, and fine art for exploring narratives of tourism. Death in Venice, and Flight, as examples of twentieth century opera where characterisations of tourists take a central position in the musical drama. In the opera storyline they are all facing situations where the normal ontological order of a holiday has been overturned, where reality shows an irrational face and where chaos, confusion, ambivalence and tragedy have profound impacts on their personal experiences of being on holiday.
