Negotiating the Tourist gaze in Malta

1. Myopic tourist gaze

1.1. lack of communication between 2 very different tendencies in the literatures of the cultural aspects of tourism

1.1.1. 1st method

1.1.2. 2nd method

1.1.2.1. involves >nature of authenticity >idea of tourism as ritual & pilgrimage

1.1.2.2. >provides interesting mixture of theoritical ideas and methods >provides insights into the guests experience

2. Mellieha

2.1. village turned tourist destination

2.2. friendly and hospitable

2.3. lack imagination

2.4. no culture

3. Demonstration effect

3.1. host members feeling resentful at first but later wanting to jump on the bandwangon

3.2. Dstorted metropolitan lifestyle

3.3. tourism's  main weapon and instrument of slow toture

3.4. may contain in-built assumptions

4. Actions taken

4.1. advertised in brochures

4.2. added signs

4.3. `protects old architecture

4.4. serves local cuisines

4.4.1. effects both tourists and local

5. Maltese tourism problems

5.1. more tourists than local population

5.2. on their way to xenophobia

5.3. substitutes taxonomy for in-depth analysis

5.3.1. failing to take sufficient acc of the overall context

5.4. economic inequalities

5.4.1. inter personal

5.4.2. inter regional