“Tourism is the “vehicle of ‘othering’ par excellence”..
TOPIC CHOICE 1:
“Tourism is the “vehicle of ‘othering’ par excellence”. (Hollinshead, 1998:121) Drawing on this idea of ‘othering’, explain the concepts of the gaze and Orientalism and discuss how they apply to a tourism context. How relevant are these concepts for explaining power relations between residents and tourists / the wider tourism industry?