Recreating Chican@ Enclaves
Centrally located between southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, is a hundred-mile long by seventy-mile wide intermountain basin known as the San Luis Valley. Surrounded on the east …
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Theme: Tourism
Tourist Photography’s Fictional Conquest
Recently, while walking across the Harvard campus, I was stopped by two tourists with a camera. They asked me if I would take a picture of them beside the words “HARVARD LAW SCHOOL,” …
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Tourism’s Landscape of Knowledge
Tourism research and scholarship is a fairly new interdisciplinary field, and I hope to offer an abbreviated pastiche of this expanding field of knowledge, culled from my own experience….
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Tourism and the Archaeology of State – Facing Challenges: the Case of Copan, Honduras
For many nation-states, the achievements of their illustrious ancestors are the source of immense pride, and a focus for national identity. …
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Nine Quandaries of Tourism
International tourism presents itself as straightforward, passive and benign, yet it is complex, interesting and important, full of contradictions and depths. Tourism is the world’s largest export …
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