Tourism: Manufacturing the Exotic. IWGIA Document No. 61.

The objective of this document is to outline the relationship between tourism and cultural minorities. It aims to understand the nature of the relationship, to point out its most serious and harmful effects and to make known some of the survival strategies that cultural minorities employ. The document calls tourism "the greatest economic and socio-cultural phenomenon of our epoch" and suggests that cultural minorities suffer more than anyone from its negative effects. This document, three years in the making, was born from an interest in tourism and its consequences among indigenous people. The contents includes the following chapters: "Tourism and Cultural Minorities: Double Marginalisation and Survival Strategies" by Pierre Rossel; "A Look Behind the Tourism Facade: Some Considerations on the Development of Tourism in the Province of Ifugao (Philippines)" by Marc-Olivier Gonseth; "The Maasai--Choice of East African Tourists--Admired and Ridiculed" by Philip Bachmann; "Tourism and Indonesian Cultural Minorities" by Jean-Luc Maurer and Arlette Zeigler; "And Why Don't You Go to the Seychelles?" by Asun Garcia; "Potlatch and Totem: The Attraction of America's Northwest Coast" by Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhoff; "Ethnic Minorities and the Development of Tourism in the Valleys of North Pakistan" by Gerard Roville; and "Tourism in the Upper Amazon and Its Effects on the Indigenous Population" by Annemarie Seiler-Baldinger. This document includes numerous maps and photographs. (TES)