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This research explores the ethnosexual tourism of women to the Maltese islands by considering the... more This research explores the ethnosexual tourism of women to the Maltese islands by considering the politics of tourism representations and tourism imaginaries about the Maltese islands, and their effects on touristic experiences and encounters in Malta. It examines the link between the historical and contemporary discourses surrounding the Maltese islands and their role in shaping how the space and its inhabitants are engaged with, physically and socially, tourist women from Northern Europe. This dissertation aims to highlight the role and influences of tourist geographical imaginaries on spaces, places, touristic practices. Utilizing a postcolonial perspective that explores Orientalism and Exoticism in tourism representations, this dissertation contributes to tourism scholarship by examining the interconnected nature of history, discourse, and the politics of representation, and their impact on contemporary travel and touristic practices. In arguing that the ethnosexual encounters t...
Using semi-structured interviews, this research brings to light the lived experiences of thirteen... more Using semi-structured interviews, this research brings to light the lived experiences of thirteen men informally employed as sex workers in Jamaica and concentrates on both determining the motivations of Jamaican men involved in the informal sex trade and understanding the men's perceptions and understandings of the tourist women with whom they become involved with. Female sex tourism is found to be used in part as a mechanism for escaping poverty, allowing men to provide for their families, an important area for male identity in Jamaica. The sex tourism of Western women also allows Jamaican men an arena to both secure sexual access to women as well as associated social status. The link between sex tourism and racism, and the racial stereotypes that precede black men are very familiar to the male sex workers who regard racial motivations, ranging from the desire to experience 'something new' to wanting to engage in sexual relations with 'real black men' to be the...
This research explores the ethnosexual tourism of women to the Maltese islands by considering the... more This research explores the ethnosexual tourism of women to the Maltese islands by considering the politics of tourism representations and tourism imaginaries about the Maltese islands, and their effects on touristic experiences and encounters in Malta. It examines the link between the historical and contemporary discourses surrounding the Maltese islands and their role in shaping how the space and its inhabitants are engaged with, physically and socially, tourist women from Northern Europe. This dissertation aims to highlight the role and influences of tourist geographical imaginaries on spaces, places, touristic practices. Utilizing a postcolonial perspective that explores Orientalism and Exoticism in tourism representations, this dissertation contributes to tourism scholarship by examining the interconnected nature of history, discourse, and the politics of representation, and their impact on contemporary travel and touristic practices. In arguing that the ethnosexual encounters t...
Using semi-structured interviews, this research brings to light the lived experiences of thirteen... more Using semi-structured interviews, this research brings to light the lived experiences of thirteen men informally employed as sex workers in Jamaica and concentrates on both determining the motivations of Jamaican men involved in the informal sex trade and understanding the men's perceptions and understandings of the tourist women with whom they become involved with. Female sex tourism is found to be used in part as a mechanism for escaping poverty, allowing men to provide for their families, an important area for male identity in Jamaica. The sex tourism of Western women also allows Jamaican men an arena to both secure sexual access to women as well as associated social status. The link between sex tourism and racism, and the racial stereotypes that precede black men are very familiar to the male sex workers who regard racial motivations, ranging from the desire to experience 'something new' to wanting to engage in sexual relations with 'real black men' to be the...