Traces of the Past: The Cycle of Expectation in Caribbean Tourism Representations

摘要: Tourism representations can be highly influential and extremely pervasive. This paper investigates the origins of vivid imagery common in today's Caribbean tourism representations. The 99-year period from 1815 to 1914 was a key era development for British West Indies with increased geopolitical stability, improved transportation, demand new experiences. With growing popularity travel, as well travel writing genre literature, more people travelled region tourists wrote about their detailed descriptions illustrations narratives created popular geographies islands. Tourists were both potential consumers producers these geographies. They frequently read literature prior during thereby carrying images them recreate experiences described. Some also chose write own narratives, reaffirming the...