Define authenticity and commodification and discuss their application to Airbnb and hotels. As part of this discussion consider the question – what’s a more authentic travel experience, a hotel, or an Airbnb?

What’s a more authentic travel experience, a hotel, or Airbnb

What’s a more authentic travel experience, a hotel, or Airbnb?
Consumers are often seeking authenticity when they travel to connect to a place and its people. Organisations such as Airbnb have developed their reputation on the premise that it provides visitors with an ‘authentically’ local experience. This reputation for authenticity can have both negative and positive impacts for local communities.
Debate exists on what provides a more authentic travel experience, a hotel, or an Airbnb? Your task is to consider the sections below to address this topic and present your arguments.

Your essay should comprise of the following section:

a) Introduction
b) Define authenticity and commodification and discuss their application to Airbnb and hotels. As part of this discussion consider the question – what’s a more authentic travel experience, a hotel, or an Airbnb?
c) Using supporting research, discuss the positives and negatives of authenticity .

d) Provide recommendations on how a destination can manage the issues you have identified drawing on examples from other destinations and what can be done to take advantage of the opportunities and overcome the challenges
e) Conclusion to summarise key points

What emotions are described by the author? How is he feeling? How are YOU feeling? What emotions do you have as you read? Write

Insights and/or Wonderings. This section is for you to write down anything that you found to be interesting, insightful, shocking, or a key detail you want to remember. You might also have questions or things you wonder about. Write down any word you don’t know or anything you wonder about. Your own question might get answered later on in the chapter or book.
Events. What events took place in this section or chapter you read? Where were people traveling to? From? Where were they staying? What is happening in terms of events? or time? (sometimes the author tells the reader how much time they spend in one location. This is an interesting detail and timeline to follow.)
Emotions. What emotions are described by the author? How is he feeling? How are YOU feeling? What emotions do you have as you read? Write those down.

Discuss at least three causes and at least three effects of this event.

create a visual cause-and-effect presentation that you will submit, using the information you have learned in the articles you read online and additional information you may gather through other articles on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum site.
All of the submissions, however, must meet the following criteria:
The assignment must focus on WWII and the Holocaust. You may choose to focus on the war, the Holocaust specifically, or one specific part of that time period (i.e., “The Final Solution”).
Write the title of the event at the top.
You must list at least three causes and at least three effects of this event.
You must include at least 6 pictures or graphics in your presentation. These pictures or graphics may be downloaded from online sites.
You must include 1–2 sentences describing each image and how it is a cause or an effect of this event.

Does the author clearly state goals and achieve them?

Book Review

Class name is Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Book related to this.

In addition to the sources assigned to the class, you are required to write a critical review ( examination) of one other book (you must find a book). Your choice must be approved by the end of week 2, please send a message with your book choice for my approval. Critical book review IS NOT a summary of the book. In that review, you should look at the author’s background, purpose for writing the book, the argument of the book, organization of the book (topical versus chronological), a brief summary of the book, sources and evidence, and critical analyze if the author(s) succeed in making the argument. The book review is due by the end of week 5.

My suggestion is to review one of the books used for your research paper. Your paper should be a Word document, in 12-point Times New Roman font, double-spaced, and structured according to Turabian or Chicago style rules. The maximum length of the paper is 2 pages.

Assignment Guidelines:

Book Review Guidelines: Historians often contribute to the scholarly discourse in the form of a book review, which I strongly encourage you to do. The guidelines for book reviews for this course closely follow those of the Journal of Military History. When writing a professional book review, following guidelines is essential for success, so these guidelines are important; will use them for evaluation of the book review for the course.

Will also include a successful sample book review. Recommend you choose and read the books for your review as early as possible since a good review might require more than one close reading of the book.

Appraisal: Keep the scholarly interests of the reading audience in mind as you write the review.

Does the author clearly state goals and achieve them?

What are the goals?

Is the work sound scholarship?

How does the work contribute or add to the field?

What is the significance of the book to the field?

Is the writing clear and free of jargon?

Is the book worth buying? Reading? By whom?

Tone: Scholarly disputation is best handled in a courteous manner. Criticism, both positive and negative, must be substantiated. Personal attacks on the author, as opposed to strong disagreement with the book, are always inappropriate and will not be published.

Footnotes: Do Not Use. Indicate exact pagination for direct quotes as in the following example: “The military genius of Napoleon is best demonstrated in his capacity for situational flexibility” (p. 323). If it is necessary to translate a foreign-language quotation, include the original on a separate sheet. Quoted material, especially lengthy ones, are not a good idea, though.

Names: Give the full names of persons you mention in the review.

Minor Errors: Unless errors or fact, typography, or spelling and grammar detract in a major way from the quality of the book, it is hoped that the limited number of words in the review can best be expended more profitably in other ways.

How did the railway and the camps function as one large machine of death?

Remember you are asked to accomplish 2 things in the essay. The first is to compare and contrast the films you watched. (Choose at least two films.) How are they accurate or well told and how are they not as good as some others.

The second thing is to address a topic (or question) of your choice.So for example one topic could be, how did the railway and the camps function as one large machine of death? Describe it.