Colonisation

Tourism as opportunity for decolonisation and reconciliation in the context of the colonial-settler state

Global tourism, could be conceptualised as a continuation of the practices of colonial occupation and conquering of the past. Dominated by Western hegemony, Tourism continues to “benefit from the colonial roots of globalisation” through both the “ownership of tourist infrastructures such as airlines, hotel booking systems and resorts” as well as in tendency to control local tourism narratives that are “echoed in the imaginations of tourists, in the marketing of destinations and in the production of touristed landscapes.” [1]