ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the Italian island of Sardinia and its smaller offshore islands, located in the middle of Western Mediterranean Sea, and which can be considered as an archipelago, a group of islands in which there are “… fluid cultural processes, sites of abstract and material relations of movement and rest, dependent on changing conditions of articulation or connections” (Stratford, Baldacchino, Farbotko, Harwood and McMahon, 2011, p. 122). It explores the tourism consumption relationships that exist between the mainland of Sardinia, and its four so-called ‘minor’ islands of Asinara, the La Maddalena archipelago (itself made up of various islands, islets and shoals), Sant’Antioco and San Pietro. The Sardinian archipelago also includes some 50 other small islands, including Tavolara, Cavoli, Serpentara and Mal di Ventre; but these are not taken into consideration in this chapter, given time and word length constraints.
