This chapter is a review of tourism throughout the Pacific Islands. It situates tourism in the colonial experience, and shows that its development has often been constrained by political upheaval and unrest and, sometimes, 'traditional' land tenure. In some countries, however, mass tourism has been ...

This chapter situates and describes some of the problems that emerge when sociologists/social anthropologists from developed societies become involved in 'development' work in developing countries. The chapter is in three distinct sections: a brief overview of the debates about anthropologists'...

This chapter draws from research on volunteer tourism in orphanages in Nepal, joining the debate on the relationship of orphanage tourism to modern slavery. The chapter sheds light on an implicit and fundamental manifestation of domination in orphanage tourism: the business of poverty. Indeed,...

This chapter discusses how colonialism links closely to modern terrorism, which is inextricably intertwined with travel. It also places the notion of exemption and 'American-ness' under a critical lens, and suggests that Americans are particularity exercised by terrorism due to the legacy of...

This chapter presents some of the photographs and stories shared by the members of a women's empowerment organization as part of a larger PhotoVoice study of the hosts' gaze in township tourism in South Africa. Viewed through the lens of feminist postcolonialism, the positive support for the...

This chapter explores, from a largely Polish perspective, some of the geopolitical dimensions and tensions of elite footballer mobilities. The chapter draws on the concepts of core-periphery relationships and semi-colonialism to address the nature and significance of asymmetrical flows from...

This chapter seeks to highlight mountain environments, which play host to tourism activities, as morally resonant spaces - spaces in which different meanings and values are asserted, contested, negotiated and resisted. It begins by exploring issues of representation in mountain tourism marketing,...

This chapter applies transition theory to specific debates in both the social and natural sciences and highlights some of the parallel (and not so parallel) debates surrounding the postulated shifts from one state of organization to another. It looks at the postulated transition from Fordism to...

The main focus of this chapter is on the links between transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) and ecotourism in Africa. Those links are established by analysing one of the famous routes in Africa, the Cape to Cairo route. The analysis begins by considering the idea of the Cape to Cairo in its...

This chapter examines the manner in which spatiality is able to reproduce social relations of power and how the feminization of Africa, formerly constituted by colonialism and now disseminated by tourism, is maintained in The Lost City, a South African theme park.