Students learn about tourism as a tool for economic and community development and the impacts it can have on a community's sense of identity, control, and wellbeing.
Ethnic, cultural, national, gender/sexual and regional identities are not simply marketed for tourists, but these various dimensions of tourees' identities can be reaffirmed or altered via tourism.
This book gives considerable analysis to the complex relationship between the two domains and indeed, the multifaceted strategies used to define that relationship.