ABSTRACT
The potent mix of politics, culture and questions of social identity raises important issues for tourism, which can be seen as a set of cultural, economic and political phenomena, with meanings and applications loaded with ambiguities and uncertainties (Franklin & Crang, 2001). Its rapid growth has subjected host communities to a bewildering array of changes, actor networks and, as Franklin (2004) would have it, a constant re-ordering of society.
