ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the tropical waters as a cultural construct calling on representations and practices. It explores that the touristic images are not restricted to those incarnated in iconographic, artistic and advertising production, they extend to the universe of mental images, if not that of myths'. The chapter finds the value of identifying a tropical coastal destination as a geotype and tropical waters as chorotype is undoubtedly limited. Over and above demonstrating the existence of tropical waters in a tourism typology. In fact, the transparency of turquoise lagoons would first be rendered thanks to light rather than pigments. Photographic technologies which would make it possible to popularize color appeared just before world war two. The first tourism posters were no more sensitive to turquoise colors which were hard to reproduce on the printer's press. The world of the Caribbean is central to this kind of tourism which remains inaccessible for many tourists due to cost, training, or, quite simply, apprehension.
