‘SAME SAME, BUT DIFFERENT’: AN INQUIRY INTO PARADISE IMAGERY OF TOURISM INDUSTRY AND TOURIST PRACTICES Cover Image

ИСТО ИСТО, НО РАЗЛИЧНО: ИСТРАЖУВАЊЕ НА РАЈСКИТЕ СЛИКИ НА ТУРИСТИЧКАТА ИНДУСТРИЈА И ТУРИСТИЧКИТЕ ПРАКТИКИ
‘SAME SAME, BUT DIFFERENT’: AN INQUIRY INTO PARADISE IMAGERY OF TOURISM INDUSTRY AND TOURIST PRACTICES

Author(s): Boshtijan Kravanja
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Институт за етнологија и антропологија, Универзиетет »Св. Кирил и Методиј«
Keywords: paradise image; tourism; post colony; tropics; island; beach; Sri Lanka; backpackers

Summary/Abstract: Image of the ‘paradise’ is a conventional icon of mass tourism industry and is most often represented as a solitary tropical island with palm trees, beaches and the like. However, this symbol has been represented in many other contexts, not only in advertising of island tourism. As such, it has developed into a world-wide symbol, to which different emphasis and meanings have been attached, depending on types and goals of individual cultural production or meaning. With different implications of ‘the paradise’ in mind, I will try to systematize its actualizations and rethink its power and value in contemporary tourist practices of Western backpackers and travellers in postcolonial worlds.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 9
  • Page Range: 73-107
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English
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