Desmond's Discussion of Hawaiian Tourism Analytical Essay by Top Papers

The paper briefly argues that Desmond's discussion of Hawaiian tourism offers a good complement to the implicit eroticism involved in experiencing tourism through the practices of the body. The paper shows how human sexuality - chiefly of a heterosexual nature - is used to familiarize oneself to the foreign terrain of the tourist site (at least in Hawaii); it can also be used, in a real sense, to first commodify, and then to gain mastery over, the tourist location.