Abstract
Engagement with postcolonial thought has become a key component of critical geographies (Gibson, 2009). More specifically, within tourism geographies postcolonial thinking has underpinned analyses of the sites of tourism encounters as both spaces of ongoing colonialism and in terms of their postcolonial potential (Hall and Tucker, 2004; Tucker and Akama, 2009). In particular, postcolonial theory has been used to critically address issues pertaining to the representation of people and places through tourism.