The Impact of Tourism in East Africa A Ruinous System

• Main Author: Storch, Anne (auth)
• Other Authors: Mietzner, Angelika (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Multilingual Matters / Channel View Publications 2021
• Series: Tourism and Cultural Change
• Subjects: Tourism industry; Sociolinguistics; Colonialism & imperialism; Business; Linguistics; Political Science
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This book explores the relationship between imperial formations and individual encounters at African tourist sites - spaces of leisure, healing and work. It examines how encounters between tourists and hosts tend to be constructed along colonial thought lines and considers how players in the hospita...