Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jane C. Desmond
• KALISSA ALEXEYEFF
• JOHN TAYLOR

Titel

Afterword: Ambivalence, Ambiguity and the ‘Wicked Problem’ of Pacific Tourist Studies

Ist Teil von

• Touring Pacific Cultures, 2016, p.439

Ort / Verlag

ANU Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• ‘The Pacific …’—it is a sweeping term that pulls up a host of images reiterated over and over on tourist brochures: limitless blue sea, swaying palm trees, pristine beaches, warm breezes and warmly welcoming, happy inhabitants. ‘Paradise found!’ The reality is quite different and much more complex—co-existing with all of those elements are many languages and many communities, sovereignty movements, under-employment and poverty, and, for some, a dependence on remittances sent home from family members working far away and, for others, elaborate homes of local elites. There are also universities, artists, writers, scholars, sustainable fishing initiatives, factories, labourers,