ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with how media representations of tourism or, rather, tourist spaces work, through a critical attention to recent conceptual developments in terms of the tourist‘s encounter with space and the possibility of critical, ‘alternative’ media discourses. A focal point in this chapter is the photographic and ethnographic-type investigation and representation of particular spaces, inhabitants and tourists, in the form of the photodocumentary People of the Hills (Grassick and Crouch 1999).
