Tourism and Postcolonialism

<p>Due to its centrality to the processes of transnational mobilities migration and globalization tourism studies has the potential to make a significant contribution to understanding the postcolonial experience. Drawing together theoretical and applied research this fascinating book illuminates the links between tourism colonialism and postcolonialism. Significantly it creates a space for the voices of authors from postcolonial countries. </p><p>Chapters are integrated and examined through concepts taken from the wider postcolonial literature which identify tourism not only as an international industry but also as a postcolonial cultural form which by its very nature is based on past and present day colonial structural relationships.</p><p>The first book to explicitly explore the contribution tourism can make to the postcolonial experience this book is an essential read for students of tourism cultural studies and geography.</p>