Departures and arrivals in touring Pacific cultures -- Hawai'i: prelude to a journey -- Darkness and light in black and white: travelling mission imagery from the Hew Hebrides -- Tourism -- The cruise ship -- Pitcairn and the bounty story -- Guys like Gauguin -- Statued (stat you?) traditions -- Detouring Kwajalein: at home between coral and concrete in the Marshall Islands -- Yuki Kihara's culture for sale and the history of Pacific cultural performance -- Native realities in an imaginary world: contemporary Kanaka Maoli art at Aulani, a Disney resort and spa -- Moving towers: worlding the spectacle of masculinities between South Pentecost and Munich -- Writing home on the Pari and touring in Pacific studies -- Performing indigenous sovereignties across the Pacific -- New Pacific portraits: voices from the 11th Festival of Pacific Arts -- Great works -- Ibu and Tufuga -- Cross-currents: Teana and Moenau, Tahitian tourists in Seattle -- Carnet de Voyage en Irlande -- A trip from Port Moresby to Suva -- Performing cannibalism in the South Seas -- Touring 'real life'? authenticity and village-based tourism in the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea -- Suva, November '97 -- Pikinini in paradise: photography, sourvenirs and the 'child native' in tourism -- Bandit singsing: the tourism unexperience -- The friendly islands? Tonga's ambivalent relationship with tourism -- Re-purposing paradise: tourism, image and affect -- Local tourist on a bus ride home -- Mixed bag of tropical sweets sitting outside the Hotel R and R -- Fiji: reflections in the infinity pool -- Afterword: ambivalence, ambiguity and the 'wicked problem' of Pacific tourist studies.

'This collection is a welcome addition to tourism studies, or perhaps we should say post- or para-tourism. The essays bring out many facets and experiences too quickly bundled under a single label and focused exclusively on "destinations" visited by "outsiders". Tourism, we see here, actively involves many different populations, societies, and economies, a range of local/global/regional engagements that can be both destructive and creative. Western outsiders aren't the only ones on the move. Unequal power, (neo)colonial exploitation and capitalist commodification are very much part of the picture. But so are desire, adventure, pleasure, cultural reinvention and economic development. The effect, overall, is an attitude of alert, critical ambivalence with respect to a proliferating historical phenomenon. A bumpy and rewarding ride.' -- James Clifford, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz."

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

English.

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