ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that development tourism is a form of ethical transaction that enables the creation of a 'self-as-enterprise' in a changing neoliberal economy. While development began with state-sanctioned projects and public works for the betterment of Third World people, it is now reliant on the agency of non-governmental organisations and corporate interests. The complex motivations of development tourists offer an insight into the expanding market for ethical travel. The PhD research focuses on a multi-sited ethnography of development tourism, including interviews in Sydney and the periods of participant observation in development tourism programmes in Cambodia and Peru. Conceptions of what motivates the creation of good selves and a good society within tourism research need to keep moving, at least as fast as the enterprise society transforms these self and global developments into successful enterprises. At the very least, the pathos of development tourist's highly pressured creation of a good self must be appreciated.
