Travel and Tourism

Imagining places by the prescriptions of s profitable gay tourist in dustry can be particularly problematic , depending on how the interest pf the industry intersect , overlap , and are negotiated within the narrativies of politicians,local lesbian and gay organizations , gay residents , nongay residents , and organized religion. The boundaries of desire mapped bi the tourism industry may not intersect with those of nongay or gay people , and the territories mapped by gay tourism my be exclusionary and disputed. Gay destinations have therefore become contested spaces across geographical scales from the body to the local to the national. Foe example, at the national scale, gay tourism has been more easily accommodated within the multicultural rheotoric of Canada, Australia and most recently, the new labour ideology in Britian. In Contrast,where forms of fundamentalism underpin political narratives of natioanalism, citizenship is conferred to only those who conform to a particicular ethnic,relegious,gender and sexual order. For example in 2004 the Zanzibar parliament passed legislation that criminalized homosexual acts. Zanzibar is not alone. Many Muslim,African,Asian and post Soviet Eastern European nations have called upon "traditional values" to demonize homoeroticims. Often politicians use the morality preached by an organized religion to help endorse these statements. For example Ms. Asha Juna a member of Zanzibar's Joint Presidential supervisory Comission, is reported to have blarned gay tourists from South Africa for introducing "misdemenory and misbehavior". In doing so the state naturalized as defense of the nation, any verbal harassment,physical assaults and police entrapment of suspected "gay" natioanals.