Living pasts: Contested Tourism Authenticities

摘要: Abstract Recent critiques of the concept authenticity in tourism studies have had unfortunate effect silencing claims and counter-claims as to tourist performances amongst host communities, tended focus purely on effects a device for temporally distancing Other. Rather than simply being an obsession Western observers however, understanding competing these is central importance wider social context divisions within which practiced. This argument illustrated ethnographically with regard behind scenes debates surrounding event Papua New Guinea.