Staging the Pacific: Framing Authenticity in Performances for Tourists at the Polynesian Cultural Center

Balme, Christopher

doi:10.1353/tj.1998.0001

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“…1 See Alexeyeff (2009), Balme (1998), Condevaux (2011), Connell and Gibson (2008), Desmond (1997Desmond ( , 1999, Dick (2014), Hayward (2001), Imada (2011Imada ( , 2012, , Kahn (2011aKahn ( , 2011b, Kole (2010), Senft (1999), Stillman (1988), Tatar (1987), and Waitt and Duffy (2010).…”

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A Distinctive Voice in the Antipodes: Essays in Honour of Stephen A. Wild

Gillespie¹,

Treloyn²,

Niles³

2017

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A Distinctive Voice in the Antipodes: Essays in Honour of Stephen A. Wild

Gillespie¹,

Treloyn²,

Niles³

2017

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“…There is also solid support for this theme in other literature on tourist attractions. For example, Balme (1998) referred to the engagement of the tourists by guides and staff at the Polynesian Cultural Centre, Hawaii, as 'the playful deconstruction of the tourist gaze' through humour and sincerity. Aiello and Gendelman (2007) characterized the emotional involvement of the staff at Pike Place market in Seattle as exuberant and emotional theatricality which was the basis of that attraction's success.…”

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Soft infrastructure at tourism sites: identifying key issues for Asian tourism from case studies

Pearce

2015

Tourism Recreation Research

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Building on the under-utilized power of case studies, this conceptual review considers information to enhance Asian tourism sites and attractions. Soft infrastructure, defined as the total effect of the hospitality, interpretive and person-to-person encounters, was considered at 16 strategically selected locations drawn from 7 Asian countries. An emic, tourist-oriented perspective was used to appraise the effects of the soft infrastructure. The researchers employed information from academic publications, attraction websites, tourists' reviews and personal visits to identify common cross-site issues. Seven key issues were identified: the importance of emotional labour/sincerity; the value of quality and professionalism; creating understanding and the role of language; the appeal of performance and spectacle; the usefulness of immersion and participation; the power of authentic local voices; and the management of crowding and close encounters. Site and tourist precinct attraction managers can evaluate these issues to better use their tourism assets and create enhanced on-site experiences.

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“…80:4, 2015 (pp. 433 -447) technologies of steam travel (Fusco et al 1993;Bennett 1988;Balme 1998;Stanley 1998;Parezo & Fowler 2007;Blanchard, et al 2008;Allegaert & Sliggers 2009;Qureshi 2011, Fiskesjö 2014. The current moment is characterized by even more intensified global economic and communicative interlinkage, and it is unsurprising that recent decades have witnessed a steep acceleration in tourists' desire and ability to visit human communities figured as different or separate, relative to global modernity.…”

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Introduction: Double Signs and Intrasocietal Heterogeneity in Primitivist Tourism Encounters

Stasch

2014

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A growing body of ethnographic work examines tourism in which visited people are figured as embodying an archaic human condition outside modernity. I suggest that this work's core subject is the structure of articulations between people who understand their close involvement very differently. I then highlight two more specific themes that cut across this issue's case studies from Kenya, Indonesia, China, and Papua New Guinea. One is that ethnographers trace participants' disparate understandings of specific interactional media, since these contact points and their plural make-up are the actual substance of articulation between different sides to the encounters. The other theme I highlight is that heterogeneity within tourists' and visited people's home ideological formations is critical to their tourism involvement, such that endosocial and exosocial processes are mutually constitutive. I lastly outline how the category 'primitivism' is a useful resource for situating this tourism in wider and deeper historical contexts.keywords Primitivism, tourism, working misunderstandings, double signs, intersocietal articulations, intrasocietal heterogeneity T he articles in this special issue join a growing but still dispersed body of work on what can be termed 'primitivist tourism' in which leisure travellers from dominantly urban, industrialized countries seek meetings with people they understand to embody an archaic condition outside global consumer culture, marketized social relations, and the rule of states and prostelytizing religions (e.g.

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Staging the Pacific: Framing Authenticity in Performances for Tourists at the Polynesian Cultural Center

Cited by 47 publications

References 14 publications

A Distinctive Voice in the Antipodes: Essays in Honour of Stephen A. Wild

A Distinctive Voice in the Antipodes: Essays in Honour of Stephen A. Wild

Soft infrastructure at tourism sites: identifying key issues for Asian tourism from case studies

Introduction: Double Signs and Intrasocietal Heterogeneity in Primitivist Tourism Encounters

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