An overview is presented of the main themes addressed in this book about the host gaze, followed by summaries of the individual book chapters.

This synthesis chapter subjects the gaze to scrutiny, offering the reader a comprehensive analysis of the gaze, the Foucauldian gaze and the gaze in tourism. Building on Hollinshead's previous work on the gaze and chapter 1 in this book (entitled 'The Scopic Drive of Tourism: Foucault and Eye...

This chapter discusses the host gaze as a gaze that is culturally and stereotypically maintained and perpetuated in tourism encounters. In its documentation of Western women tourists in India and Sri Lanka, the chapter offers a deeper understanding on the origins of the male host gaze, a gaze that...

This chapter builds upon MacCannell's second gaze to propose a third gaze: a gaze that offers a deeper look into the gaze, and this time goes truly beyond the visible to reach the invisible in the unconscious of the host gaze. The third gaze is ingrained in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical...

This chapter compares two different kinds of professional gazes: that of the hotel bellman and that of the prison officer. By using the two as each other's analytical mirrors, it hopes to give novel insights on both sides. Although different in many respects, it is argued that the two have in...

This chapter considers the development of the concept of 'gaze' in Western cultural and critical theory. It then examines the 'flâneur' as a gazer and introduces the concept of the choraster, as the relationship of visitor and host in the space of the 'other' and self. The notion of gaze is thus...

This chapter looks at the reflexive practice of hospitality exchange, enabled by the site, couchsurfing.com, an apparatus that enables individuals to seek new solidarities, encounters, relations and feelings, through and with others. By asking who are guests and hosts in the age of mobility,...

This chapter explores how young Tibetans view the future of the tourism sector in the context of Lhasa. It pursues three themes (a non-Western setting, a location with a rapid evolution of tourism and a focus on the future) to continue the exploration of the gaze concept.

This chapter highlights the conceptual value of approaching and understanding host gazes through engaging with alternative, non-Western discourses and knowledge communities. A case study is presented of a community-based tourism initiative in Gambia, which demonstrates how respondent-led...

This chapter explains that the history of the Kuna people of Panama is constituted of resistance to outsiders - and that tradition continues today with tourists. Although the Kuna are known worldwide for their hand-sewn mola panels, they remain an elusive mystery to the tourists who come to their...