ABSTRACT
Corfu and the Ionian Islands function even less than other parts of Greece as alien or as “the Balkan other”. The World Wide Fund for Nature has published a number of key articles on responsible, sustainable tourism and the threats posed by tourism in the Mediterranean. Nicholas has provided a fascinating personal record of the mutual gaze and attraction between Corfiot and foreigner in the early to mid-sixties. John Urry and Jonas Larsen provide extensive references to the various types of gaze that have been the subject of academic studies: the romantic gaze, the collective gaze, the anthropological gaze, the exotic gaze, the mass gaze, the local gaze, the intratourist gaze, the second gaze, the mutual gaze, the reverse gaze. The mutual gaze between service provider and service receiver, between host and guest, is broadly reciprocal, friendly and fairly equally balanced, in Dassia at least.
