This book discusses how the host gaze is constructed, how it has developed, how it varies between countries and how the tourism industry can affect it. Looking at the gazes of both Western and non-Western hosts, this book analyses the dynamics of a host destination and consequences the gaze can have upon the tourist.

1: Introduction: Gazemaking: Le Regard - Do You Hear Me? 2: The Scopic Drive of Tourism: Foucault and Eye Dialectic 3: Gaze and Self: Host Internalization of the Tourist Gaze 4: The Thai Host Gaze: Alterity and the Governance of Visitors in Thailand 5: Turkish Host Gaze at Russian Tourists: A Cultural Perspective 6: A Host Gaze Composed of Mediated Resistance in Panamá: Power Inversion in Kuna Yala 7: The Hosts Gaze on Current Christian Pilgrims in Israel: Tour Guides Gazing 8: Picturing Tourism: Conceptualising the Gambian Host Gaze through Photographs 9: You Never Know Who Is Going to Be On Tour: Reflections on the Indigenous Host Gaze from an Alaskan Case Study 10: Looking Down, Looking Out, and Looking Forward: Tibetan Youth View Tourism in the Future 11: Perceived Host Gaze in the Context of Short-Term Mission Trips 12: Couchsurfing through the lens of Agential Realism: Intra-Active Constructions of Identity and Challenging the Subject-Object Dualism 13: Gaze, Encounter and Philosophies of Otherness 14: The Bellman and the Prison Officer: Between Customer Care and Panopticism 15: The Third Gaze: De-Constructing the Host Gaze in the Psychoanalysis of Tourism 16: Real-and-Imagined Women: Goddess America Meets the World 17: Synthesis - The Eye of Power in and Through Tourism: The Banal Ubiquity of Agents of Naturalisation 18: Conclusion