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Tourism --- Culture and tourism --- Culture and tourism. --- Tourism. --- Latin America.

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Tourism --- Culture and tourism --- Ethnic groups --- Tourisme --- Ethnotourisme --- Groupes ethniques --- Hainan Sheng (China) --- Hainan (Chine) --- Social life and customs --- Mœurs et coutumes

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The "Tahiti" that most people imagine -- white-sand beaches, turquoise lagoons, and beautiful women -- is a product of 18th century European romanticism and persists today to serve as the bedrock of Tahiti's tourism industry. This postcard image, however, masks a different, less known reality. French Polynesia remains a colony of France in the 21st century and was the site of France's nuclear testing program for nearly thirty years. The dreams and desires, which the tourism industry promotes, distract from the medical nightmares and environmental destruction caused by nuclear testing. Tahitians see the burying of a bomb in their land as deeply offensive. For them, the land abounds with ancestral fertility and genealogical identity, providing them with a constant source of both physical and spiritual nourishment. The imagined and lived perspectives of Tahiti seem incompatible, yet are intricately intertwined in the political economy of French Polynesia. This book engages with questions about the ways in which power entangles itself in place-related ways. How does colonialism perpetuate and exploit these images? How can nuclear weapons testing exist in a place that is promoted as a pristine paradise? How and why is 'Tahiti' crafted by a tourism industry whose goal is to create desire? How is this imagined product embraced, ignored, or sabotaged by Tahitians? The author uses interpretive frameworks of both Tahitian and European scholars, drawing upon ethnographic details that include ancient chants, picture postcards, antinuclear protests, popular song lyrics, and the legacy of Paul Gauguin's art, to provide fresh perspectives on colonialism, tourism, imagery, and the anthropology of place.

Ethnology --- Human geography --- Culture and tourism --- Geographical perception --- Postcolonialism --- Geschichte. --- Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island) --- France --- Social life and customs. --- Foreign relations

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Exploring the role of performance in tourist and nationalist contexts, Embodying Mexico analyzes the making of icons in 20th century Mexico, as local dance, music, and ritual practices are transformed into national and global spectacles.

Folklore --- Folk dancing, Mexican. --- Folk music --- Popular culture --- Culture and tourism --- Politics and culture --- Culture and globalization --- National characteristics, Mexican. --- Performance --- Mexico --- Social life and customs.

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Carrigan here examines the aesthetic portrayal of tourism in postcolonial literatures. Looking at the cultural and ecological effects of mass tourism development in states that are still grappling with the legacies of 'western' colonialism, he argues that postcolonial writers provide blueprints toward sustainable tourism futures.

Commonwealth literature (English) --- Tourism in literature --- Ecology in literature --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Culture and tourism --- Tourism --- Ecocriticism --- History and criticism --- Environmental aspects --- Social aspects --- Tourism in literature. --- Ecology in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Ecocriticism. --- History and criticism. --- Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism --- Culture and tourism - Commonwealth countries --- Tourism - Environmental aspects - Commonwealth countries --- Tourism - Social aspects - Commonwealth countries --- Littérature du Commonwealth (anglaise) --- Écologie --- Nature --- Tourisme --- Économie de la culture --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature --- Aspect de l'environnemen