Portraits of Paradise: Themes and Images of the Tourist Industry

Abstract

144 Portraits of Paradise: Themes and Images of the Tourist Industry Dave Cooper Murdoch University, Australia Selling the tourist experience relies on the successful packaging and marketing of images that invoke visions of another world; a world of leisure, perhaps, lazing the days away on this year's tropical hideaway, surrounded by happy smiling people whose only desire is to please. A vast array of these fantasy worlds stretch out in their serried ranks on every travel agent's rack, promising entry for a short while into an existence far removed from the humdrum of everyday life. But regardless of the packages