6. Seducation: Learning the Trade of Tourist Enticement

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures ix
4. Contributors x
5. 1. Introduction: Through Other Worlds 1
6. Part 1: Travels into a Past Golden Age
7. 2. Through Other Times: The Politics of Heritage and the Past in the Catalan Pyrenees 31
8. 3. Calling Upon the Lost Empire: The Evocative Power of Miniatures in a Portuguese Nationalist Theme Park 52
9. 4. Tourism and Post-socialist Heterotopias: Eastern Europe as an Imagined Rural Past 74
10. Part 2: Tourism and Others in Dialogue
11. 5. Frozen Vodka and White Skin in Tourist Goa 95
12. 6. Seducation: Learning the Trade of Tourist Enticement 110
13. 7. Bargaining under Thatch Roofs: Tourism and the Allure of Poverty in Highland Bolivia 124
14. Part 3: Travel, Other and Self-Revelation
15. 8. Mediterranean Fields of Love: Embodied Encounters between Male Tourism Workers and Female Tourists in a Coastal Town in Turkey 141
16. 9. Wild Inside: Uncanny Encounters in European Traveller Fantasies of Africa 158
17. 10. Journeys to the Inner Self: Neo-Shamanism and the Search for Authenticity in Contemporary New Age Travel Practice 176
18. Index 192