Currently Teuntje Verdonschot, a third year student, is doing her minor in Toronto, Canada. In the Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), she is following courses like social psychology and sociology. She is also taking courses about Toronto and Canada itself, about the geography of Toronto and about the Indigenous Perspectives in Canada. This blog specifically has to do with a course Teuntje is taking which is called “Non-Fiction”, which allowed her to make a mini documentary about Tourism at Niagara Falls. Whenever Teuntje gets the oppertunity to express her creativity in the form of film, she accepts these oppertunities with both hands. This time, her video has to do with tourism, which is obviously very suitable to this course of the Bachelor of Science Tourism, which it is shared on this blog.
The documentary follows two Dutch tourists who are visiting the Niagara Falls for the first time. As you follow them along their day trip, you get an understanding of their expectations of the place, and how this highly contrats with reality. Especially once they enter Clifton Hill: a tacky, Las Vegas-like street, with rollercoasters, fast-foodchains and neon signs. The aim of this documentary is to show the ways in which tourism can significantly impact a place, to become commodified and “staged”.
Enjoy her mini documentary by clicking on the link below 🙂 :
https://youtu.be/zEWktsaZ4SU?si=KwCtPOf8U00DL1HM
