Noel B. Salazar received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and is a Fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) at the University of Leuven, Belgium. His research interests include anthropologies of mobility and travel, the local-global nexus, discourses and imaginaries of Otherness, culture contacts, heritage, and cosmopolitanism.

I am very impressed with this book. It is the best ethnography of tour guide training and performance to date. Indeed its probing analyses and its many comments make a great contribution to our understanding of contemporary international and intercultural tourism. It is very well written and superbly referenced.A" -Nelson Graburn, University of California, Berkeley - a clear, well-organized interesting piece of original research on two exceptionally interesting and productively comparable destinations. It is well placed within the tourism studies literature.A" -Sally Ann Ness, University of California, Riverside

• List of Figures Foreword: Circulating Culture Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Chapter 1. Preparing a Roadmap Chapter 2. Two Destinations, One Destiny Chapter 3. 'Seducation' Chapter 4. Imaging and Imagining Other Worlds Chapter 5. Guiding Roles and Rules Chapter 6. Fantasy Meets Reality Chapter 7. Coming Home Bibliography Index

Noel B. Salazar received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and is a Fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) at the University of Leuven, Belgium. His research interests include anthropologies of mobility and travel, the local-global nexus, discourses and imaginaries of Otherness, culture contacts, heritage, and cosmopolitanism.

I am very impressed with this book. It is the best ethnography of tour guide training and performance to date. Indeed its probing analyses and its many comments make a great contribution to our understanding of contemporary international and intercultural tourism. It is very well written and superbly referenced.A" -Nelson Graburn, University of California, Berkeley - a clear, well-organized interesting piece of original research on two exceptionally interesting and productively comparable destinations. It is well placed within the tourism studies literature.A" -Sally Ann Ness, University of California, Riverside

• List of Figures Foreword: Circulating Culture Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Chapter 1. Preparing a Roadmap Chapter 2. Two Destinations, One Destiny Chapter 3. 'Seducation' Chapter 4. Imaging and Imagining Other Worlds Chapter 5. Guiding Roles and Rules Chapter 6. Fantasy Meets Reality Chapter 7. Coming Home Bibliography Index

Noel B. Salazar received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and is a Fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) at the University of Leuven, Belgium. His research interests include anthropologies of mobility and travel, the local-global nexus, discourses and imaginaries of Otherness, culture contacts, heritage, and cosmopolitanism.

I am very impressed with this book. It is the best ethnography of tour guide training and performance to date. Indeed its probing analyses and its many comments make a great contribution to our understanding of contemporary international and intercultural tourism. It is very well written and superbly referenced.A" -Nelson Graburn, University of California, Berkeley - a clear, well-organized interesting piece of original research on two exceptionally interesting and productively comparable destinations. It is well placed within the tourism studies literature.A" -Sally Ann Ness, University of California, Riverside

• List of Figures Foreword: Circulating Culture Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Chapter 1. Preparing a Roadmap Chapter 2. Two Destinations, One Destiny Chapter 3. 'Seducation' Chapter 4. Imaging and Imagining Other Worlds Chapter 5. Guiding Roles and Rules Chapter 6. Fantasy Meets Reality Chapter 7. Coming Home Bibliography Index