History of Tourism in Africa
History of Tourism in Africa An engaging social history of foreign tourists' dreams, the African tourism industry's efforts to fulfill them, and how both sides affect each other.Since the nineteenth…
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History of Tourism in Africa
An engaging social history of foreign tourists' dreams, the African tourism industry's efforts to fulfill them, and how both sides affect each other.Since the nineteenth century, foreign tourists and resident tourism workers in Africa have mutually relied upon notions of exoticism, but from vastly different perspectives. These carefully nurtured and controlled performances typically reinforce tourists' reductive impressions--formed over centuries--of the continent, its peoples, and even its wildlife. Many of the countless tourists who have traveled to the African continent fail to acknowledge or even realize that skilled African artists in the tourist industry repeatedly manufacture "authentic" experiences in order to fulfill foreigners' often delusional, or at least uninformed, expectations.
In turn, once back in their respective homelands, tourists' accounts of their