Level 2 Social Psychology

Indigenous Tourism

Lee-Anne and Todd Jago talk about finding their tūrangawaewae and launching Maori tourism business Waka Abel TasmanMaking sense of the past has allowed a Kaiteriteri couple to shape the future — titiro whakamuri, kōkiri whakamua. Now they are paddling forwards and taking others with them. Words: Ann Warnock Photos: Oliver Weber Lee-Anne Jago headed to London in her early 20s on the first stop in a quest to see the world, […]

In Hawaii, the Search for Sustainable TourismJohn De Fries, the first native Hawaiian to lead the state’s tourism authority, discusses the delicate balance of tourism, culture and the environment — and why he got hooked on the TV show “The White Lotus.”

Cultural Tourism: Does it Help or Exploit Local Communities?

The Cultural Costs of TourismINTRODUCTION: WHO BENEFITS? At a time when many tribal peoples and ethnic minorities face the prospect of cultural, and at times physical, annihilation, it may seem grotesque to examine the effects of mass tourism on poorer countries and regions in the same way as we would consider the consequences of a large-scale development scheme in a tropical forest zone. Tourism, quite clearly, has never led to the massacre of native inhabitants, and only rarely to the uprooting of local populations.

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