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Domesticating the Exotic and Exoticizing the Domestic

Presenters on this panel unpack the ways that tourist locales market themselves as safe and familiar “foreign” spaces, and the ways that tourists deliberately ignore familiarity in order to create “the foreign.”

Presentations

Black Bear Mascot Generates Buzz: A Japanese Loose Character’s Multimedia Localism Campaign

Presenters

Michael L Maynard

“Like a State Within a State”: Inside the Gated World of Sandals Resorts

Presenters

Nicole Currier

Mobile Gringos: American Autotourists in Mexico after World War II

Presenters

Nicole K Rebec

Session chairs

Jennifer Erica Sweda