This book is the first to focus on why and how foreign Western women engage in cross-
border sexual and intimate relations as tourists travelling, or temporarily dwelling, in a …

Sexual spaces, normally inhabited by (mostly) female sex workers, are understood as
masculine spaces, and positioned for and around male consumers. However, red light …

This article asks the question,“How do Western men who travel to Thailand to pay for sex
with Thai women morally justify their actions?” In order to answer this, the study frames the …

This article focuses on heterosexual North American and European tourist women in a
transnational town in Atlantic Costa Rica renown for its intimate" vibe" and independent eco …

Increasing theoretical attention has recently been given to the importance of material
experience to the emergence of hope. Drawing on geographies of hope and the monstrous …

This paper analyses the beach enclave resort of Senegambia in The Gambia as a
landscape of power through the physical structure and the power relationships between …

In this article we map the 20 year trajectory of theorising embodiment in Tourist Studies.
From its inception in 2001, embedded within the turn in the social sciences towards …

Tourism doctoral dissertations have grown exponentially in recent years. Despite this, there
have been limited studies which examine the contribution of specific disciplines to tourism …

This paper results from a year-long ethnographic study spent with a group of women on the
Kenyan coastline who provide older male European tourists with friendship and intimacy …

Most literature on local–tourist intimate relations focuses on the aspirational migration of
Third World subjects, and often presumes the unencumbered mobility of tourists. Yet …