ABSTRACT
In what the anthropologist Arjun Appadurai has called “global ethnoscapes,” the world is engulfed in a global flow of people crossing borders. According to him, “ethnoscapes” means “the landscape of persons who constitute the shifting world in which we live: tourists, immigrants, refugees, exiles, guest workers, and other moving groups and individuals constitute an essential feature of the world and appear to affect the politics of (and between) nations to a hitherto unprecedented degree” (Appadurai, 1997, p. 33). Of these moving groups and individuals in the global ethnoscapes, it is estimated that over 80 percent are tourists.
