Vol. 25 No. 1 (2026): Tourisms’ Tristes Tropiques: Literary Travels

Tourisms’ Tristes Tropiques draws attention to the tropical zone where the deleterious effects of tourism are becoming rapidly manifest. Tristes Tropiques evokes the title of Claude Lévi-Strauss’ famous work in which he analyzes the “sad tropics” in a memoir-travelogue. His literary and reflexive engagement draws our attention to the important place literature, in its many forms, has in the anthropology of tourism and critical tourism studies. Travel literature is not merely fictional; it often presents the problematic reality of tourism in the tropics.