Keeping it pure: could New Zealand be an eco paradise?

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Ping pong in Phuket: the intersections of tourism, porn and the future

“…However, several authors portray a single future within the domain of preferred futures. Yeoman et al (2015) portray a vision of New Zealand tourism based upon an Eco Paradise and Hurley’s (2015) Utopia vision of Agritourism in 2115. Both these forms of future project an image or vision of the future in order to action the future.…”

“…Tourism marketing is a gaze. For example, Yeoman et al (2005) argue that the history of Scottish tourism is captured through a series of gazes, portraying the romanticism of the Highlands of Scotland or the lure of a New Zealand paradise through the brand 100 per cent pure (Yeoman et al , 2015). In terms of sex, Schauer (2005) researched websites claiming to specialise in providing pornography for heterosexual women, as a vehicle to examine the nascent “gaze” and visual parameters of heterosexual female sexuality, whereas Schultz (1995) has researched the dominance of the male gaze on females in pornographic magazines and films.…”

The State of Tourism Futures Research

“…One entity that is missing in this Special Issue is that of Utopia/Dystopia. This state has a long history in future and futurism literature (Yeoman et al 2014). Utopia is about continued growth, a paradise gaze, as humankind overcomes the terrestrial limits and reaches for the stars.…”

“…That, despite utopian rhetoric, has resulted in a range of unplanned impacts (Connell 2003). From a futures research perspective, Yeoman, Palomino-Schalscha, and McMahon-Beattie (2014) portrays a future of New Zealand as an Eco Paradise in which the collective good overrides individualism. Achieving the collective good is the dilemma that policy makers face when addressing the issues of climate change in which individual positions block the achievement of a utopia or better place.…”

“…Entities that make neither truth claim nor explanatory claim are utopias or dystopia. Here, the entity is based upon the definition of utopia as “no place.” From a tourism management perspective, it is about places we want to get to or places we want to avoid, either as utopian paradises and visions (Yeoman, Palomino-Schalscha, and McMahon-Beattie 2014) or despotic scenarios we need to prepare for (Yeoman, Galt, and McMahon-Beattie 2005 ).…”